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Joe Murphy

Resilience Is About How You Recharge, Not How You Endure - 0 views

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    Good advice for advisees, colleagues, and ourselves. We talk about resilience as the process of stopping, assessing, and making a new plan - but remember that the first step really is stopping long enough to rest.
Joe Murphy

Teachers resilience: A necessary condition for effectiveness - 2 views

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    The idea that resilience is a socially situated behavior, not a just personal quality, seems important, as does turning this lens (which we so often use on our students) on our own lives and work as educators.
Joe Murphy

Studies explore how black students 'respond to and resist' stereotypes - 0 views

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    Interesting studies on the double-edged sword of "resilience" in the face of discrimination.
Joe Murphy

Building Resilience, Preventing Burnout - 0 views

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    If you're feeling the weight of the semester coming down on you, you're not alone.
Joe Murphy

When the Focus on 'Grit' in the Classroom Overlooks Student Trauma - 0 views

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    This article came up at our recent lunch discussion on culturally responsive teaching. When we talk about students and resilience, are we fully informed about what things outside the classroom might be drawing on their abilities, and how they've been taught to act with "grit" in other situations?
Joe Murphy

Educating students in ambiguity and discomfort - 0 views

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    "We need to rethink the pedagogical processes by which we get students to truly embrace difference." Lots to digest in this essay from Jose Bowen.
Joe Murphy

Metacognition: Nurturing Self-Awareness in the Classroom - 1 views

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    It's interesting to see metacognitive abilities linked to broader issues of self-awareness and personal development.
Joe Murphy

Are Your Students Learning From Their Mistakes? - 1 views

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    Do you allow rewrites or makeup exams? David Gooblar argues that these can be important opportunities for students to learn from their errors. (Also some good examples, alternatives, and disagreements in the comments.)
Joe Murphy

5 Steps to Foster Grit in the Classroom - 2 views

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    It's a common complaint that our students aren't comfortable taking risks, and don't deal well with setbacks. This article provides a set of classroom techniques, from showing your own struggles with disciplinary material to celebrating success when it finally comes, which will help students get used to "fail more, fail better."
Joe Murphy

4 Ways to Encourage a Growth Mindset in the Classroom - 1 views

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    Perhaps the biggest outcome of a liberal arts education should be the understanding that every discipline is more based on learned and practiced skills than innate aptitude. The four tips in this article might be boiled down to one umbrella concept - talk to your students about growth mindset.
Eric Holdener

Wanted in College Graduates: Tolerance for Ambiguity - 1 views

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    Those are the Kenyon gates, but the article does not specifically mention Kenyon at all. The lesson to take away from this, though, is very much a Kenyon message.
Joe Murphy

The 'mindset' mindset: What we miss by focusing on kids' attitudes - 0 views

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    Interesting contrarian article from Alfie Kohn, pointing out that too much focus on "growth mindset" might be a way to sidestep larger questions of curriculum, pedagogy, and the social structures of education.
Joe Murphy

The terror of teaching - 0 views

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    I was pretty impressed by this podcast host's willingness to share her fears about her teaching, and the specific productivity tips which help her deal with them.
Joe Murphy

Failure is fun and fascinating - 0 views

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    A fun video from Michael Wesch in which he shows his students that learning, and failure, is fun. (For the record, classes on how to do a handstand are outside the CIP's purview.)
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

Is Praise Undermining Student Motivation? - 0 views

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    Students will ultimately perform better if we focus on effort and process (things which anyone can change) instead of talent and output (which can seem immutable).
Joe Murphy

Addressing Student Stress - 0 views

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    An interesting page of resources from DePaul, mixing resources for health and counseling with some classroom approaches which can help students process the learning components of their late-semester stress.
Joe Murphy

Prompts to Help Students Reflect on Learning - 0 views

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    Interesting list of prompts which ask students to reflect on their learning process and preferences. Some of these might make good course evaluation questions. How do you help students reflect on their time at Kenyon?
Joe Murphy

Scared Of Math? Here's One Way To Fight The Fear - 1 views

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    Maybe naming where math aversion started can help turn it around.
Joe Murphy

"Failure is an option. Fear is not": Creating a safe intellectual space for learning - 0 views

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    In interesting list of concrete steps you can take to ensure that your classroom is a safe space for intellectual risk-taking.
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