I think the "Quickfire" is a framework that we can apply to teaching, particularly to active learning in the form of group work, including online breakout rooms. It's something we can do in every class, and we can mix it up to keep it interesting.
As professors and facilitators of discussion, we urgently need more training on what to do when discussion goes off the rails, because it does not feel good to let students down.
Embrace taking breaks during your lectures, even just for a minute or two, and even at the end of the semester when you're exhausted. It's not laziness, it's cognitive science!
graduate education
It's worth reflecting on what assets you bring to the table as a learner, too, as you think about how to make the most of the assets others bring to your classrooms.
course planning
Inside: 1. A story 2. What is backward design? 3. How did we get here? Some history 4. The takeaway PS: some other taxonomies One day during my teaching years at the University of New Hampshire, I found myself in a department faculty meeting - I think it was a
Missed Part I? Read it here. 3. Create community in your classroom I only taught for a few months during the pandemic. It was one of the hardest challenges I’d faced in teaching—like laying railroad tracks while the train was moving—and I know I wasn’t the
After 8 years of teaching Latin, Greek, Roman civilization, and other topics in the classical world, I’ve moved on to work as a curriculum designer and faculty development facilitator for a small nonprofit, The Citizens Campaign. I’m on a team of former practitioners of government and politics who
A lot is going to change, both in politics and in higher education, in 2021. At The Citizens Campaign, we have undertaken a groundbreaking new initiative to meet the fierce urgency of 21st century crises, by giving citizens — especially people of color and economically disadvantaged urban communities — the tools they
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
I think it's bizarre that professors don't get continuing education in pedagogy, so I'm writing a blog about it for my colleagues in Classics and the humanities.
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
The Iliad doesn’t tell the whole story of the Trojan War. It tells the story of “The Wrath of Achilles” nine years into that war, and ends…
I guess I wasn’t at my sharpest this week — blame it on the pandemic — because I didn’t really think about the importance of the presence…
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
A blog about teaching Ovid’s Metamorphoses in a classical mythology course
My students are reading Ovid stateside now, after our program in Rome closed because of the spread of the coronavirus in Italy. We’re all…
