Episodes
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Experiential Learning
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Wednesday Oct 19, 2022
Course content and instructors are often forgotten once a semester concludes. In this episode, Breanna Boppre joins us to discuss how experiential learning can humanize course content and provide meaningful and rich experiences that stick with learners for many years. Bree is an Assistant Professor at Sam Houston State University’s Department of Victim Studies. She is also the author of a chapter in Picture a Professor, edited by Jessamyn Neuhaus.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Change in the Academy
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Wednesday Oct 02, 2019
Change in higher ed often occurs slowly. In this episode, Dr. Blase Scarnati joins us to discuss how community organizing strategies can be used to formulate changes that can be supported, or at least not resisted, by all stakeholders.
Blase is a Professor of Musicology and Director of Global Learning and the Center for International Education at Northern Arizona University.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Engaged scholarship
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Wednesday Oct 17, 2018
Many of us live and work in communities where there is a strong town and gown divide. Building trust, engaging authentically, and developing deep understanding through intergroup dialogue takes time, patience and the right structure. In this episode, Dr. Khuram Hussain, an Associate Professor of Education and Interim Dean at Hobart College, joins us to explore a model of engaged scholarship that challenges the academy to engage in dialogue with and work alongside the community to address pressing local issues.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Mar 07, 2018
Common Problem Pedagogy
Wednesday Mar 07, 2018
Wednesday Mar 07, 2018
Most colleges are organized as a collection of academic silos. Many challenging problems facing society, though, are multifaceted. In this episode, Leigh Allison Wilson joins us to discuss the use of common problem pedagogy, an approach that allows students to address a problem from multiple disciplinary perspectives.
Leigh is the Director of the Interdisciplinary Program and Activities Center at SUNY-Oswego. She is also the author of two collections of stories, one of which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her stories have appeared in the Georgia Review, Grand Street, Harper's, The Kenyon Review, Smokelong Quarterly, The Southern Review, and elsewhere. Leigh teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego. In addition to the Flannery O'Connor award, she has received the Saltonstall Award for Creative Nonfiction, and a Pulitzer nomination by William Morrow for her collection Wind. Leigh is a Michener Fellow of the Copernicus Society and is a Henry Hoyns fellow of the University of Virginia.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Civic Engagement
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Wednesday Feb 07, 2018
Real-world learning experiences come in a variety of flavors. In this episode, Allison Rank, a political scientist at SUNY-Oswego, joins us to discuss how she has built a course in which students organize and run a non-partisan voter registration and get-out-the-vote campaign. This project combines many of the best features of service learning and simulation.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.
Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
Authentic Learning
Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
Wednesday Jan 24, 2018
In this episode, Rebecca Mushtare discusses how she has used community-based learning and simulation projects to provide authentic learning experiences in her design courses.
A transcript of this episode and show notes may be found at http://teaforteaching.com.