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
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