T5: Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together

Guest: Madeline Gangnes | Assistant Professor | English, Center for Literary and Performing Arts | University of Scranton Madeline's website: https://mbgangnes.com Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing stude...

Guest: Kate Aguilar | Assistant Professor | Department of History, African Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies | Gustavus Adolphus College Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of pe...

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this first series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to trying in our classes as we encourage our students to engage with the course syllabus.

Guest: Kelly McConville | Director, Dominguez Center for Data Science | Bucknell University Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is universal, so i...

Guest: Jennifer Gorman | Assistant Professor | Department of Mathematics | Lake Superior State University Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is u...

Guest: Emma Dosmar | Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering | University of Illinois (formerly Associate Professor within Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology) Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning pres...

Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is universal, so it seems is the struggle to get students to engage with it.  In our first series, we discuss...

If you have ever faced some tension in your role as a professor, then you are in the right place.  Welcome to T5 - Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together.  Join us as we talk through strategies for navigating some of the challenges of academia.