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Confessions of a 'Formerly Young' Professor - 0 views

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    How do your approaches to teaching and learning shift along with your life stage?
Joe Murphy

The Big List of Class Discussion Strategies - 0 views

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    Good list of formal practices for classroom discussion which can get students more organized and more broadly participating in class. I was particularly taken with the URL for this page, which calls them "speaking-listening techniques".
Joe Murphy

The invitation - 0 views

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    Terrific way to frame technology use and non-use in the classroom. "Instead of imposing restrictions about what they can't use, invite them to have an experience that can't be had through the use of technology." Also a very good rundown of other writing about the pros and cons.
Alex Alderman

Research documents life impact of attending a liberal arts college - 0 views

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    Richard Detweiler's study correlates students' classroom experiences with their lifelong achievement of mission goals of liberal arts colleges.
Joe Murphy

Sermons For Grumpy Campers - 0 views

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    There's a basic point here that it's useful to have a set of quick prepared remarks to encourage students to buy in to a new teaching approach. And perhaps some of Dr. Felder's specific language might be useful to you.
Joe Murphy

DIY Syllabus: How to Move Beyond the Transactional - 0 views

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    "By carefully considering what our syllabi are for, what they should include, and - most essentially - what they really communicate to our students, we can create a document that does a significant amount of heavy lifting for us. That document articulates a set of promises about what the course can do for students when they accept our invitation and take ownership of their learning in this collective enterprise."
Alex Alderman

New Advice on Navigating Politics in the Classroom - 0 views

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    The AAUP has published some guidelines for understanding what is and is not protected classroom speech when addressing political issues and student comments.
Joe Murphy

How We Pronounce Student Names, and Why it Matters - 0 views

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    As we prepare to welcome new colleagues and students, remember that even the simple gesture of showing that you're working hard to learn a person's preferred name makes a big difference.
Joe Murphy

Introversion and Class Participation: Let's Talk About It - 0 views

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    Some interesting thoughts here about the differences between "shyness" and "introversion", and the way your classroom participation practices can help or hinder students. Also an interesting reflection on participation in the scholarship of teaching and learning, as the author deals with resistance to her original article.
Joe Murphy

To Help Students Learn, Engage the Emotions - 0 views

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    We spend a lot of time thinking about how to make course material "interesting" - what if we spent some of that time looking for ways to make it "affective"?
Joe Murphy

Gone Fishin': How Bass Fishing Helped My Classroom Approach - 1 views

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    "Both fishing and teaching are unsolvable puzzles." Are there lessons you can bring to teaching from your hobbies?
Joe Murphy

Survey sheds new light on faculty attitudes and experiences toward trigger warnings - 0 views

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    "Survey of literature and arts professors finds 60 percent see the practice as harmful to academic freedom -- although many favor general descriptions on a syllabus, even as they avoid labeling particular works."
Joe Murphy

Flipped learning skepticism: Is flipped learning just self-teaching? - 0 views

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    The author addresses some of the criticisms of flipped learning, including student resistance and how to overcome it. The key is thinking about how face-to-face time is used to reach higher-level learning goals than otherwise possible.
Joe Murphy

The Teaching Naked Cycle: Technology Is a Tool, but Psychology Is the New Pedagogy - 0 views

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    "Our real goal is to improve how students integrate new information. We want to change them. While what we have to teach our students may get them a first job, it will not on its own get them a second job-especially one that may not yet even exist. We want our students to be able to learn new things, analyze new knowledge, integrate it into their thinking, and change their minds when necessary." Jose Bowen argues that we should treat both technology and disciplinary content as tools, in pursuit of the larger cognitive changes we try to create in the liberal arts.
Joe Murphy

Developing a Teaching Persona - 0 views

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    Interesting thoughts in this article (and in the comments section!) about how we present ourselves in the classroom. I was taken by the suggestion that trying on new teaching styles ought to require a serious reflection on what we're good at (or not yet good at) as teachers. Thoughts about the "teaching persona" over time, and across different classes, also seem important.
Joe Murphy

Four behaviors I had to overcome to move forward in my career - 0 views

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    Good tips, not just for new faculty (though that's who the author is preparing to address), but really for anyone in a new job or life stage or just ready for a prompt to reflect on their teaching.
Joe Murphy

What Do You Do on the First Day of Class? - 1 views

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    An approach to class introductions, designed to start forming relationships and working on the classroom dynamic.
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    An approach to class introductions, designed to start forming relationships and working on the classroom dynamic.
Joe Murphy

Modeling the Behavior We Expect in Class - 0 views

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    If we want to help students take risks and cope with failure, we're going to have to make it transparent when we're doing that as scholars and teachers too.
Joe Murphy

Classroom Freedom Versus Control - 0 views

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    We want independent, self-motivated learners, but we also know clear expectations are key to teaching disciplinary modes of thinking (and avoiding basic errors). How do you balance that tension?
Joe Murphy

What's The Deal With Classroom Trigger Warnings? - 0 views

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    Interesting and nuanced take on "trigger warnings" from a PBS YouTube channel.
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