T5: Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together

Guest: Laura Le | Senior Lecturer | Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science | University of Minnesota Additional Resources: SQ3R Tool : A brief resource on a technique for reading to promote understanding. Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisd...

Guest: Shannon Talbott | Associate Professor | Department of Mathematics | Moravian University Resource: Link to article describing the guided inquiry that is used in Dr. Talbott's upper level algebra course. Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in the...

Guest: Melissa Stucky | Lecturer | Bayh College of Education, Teaching, and Learning | Indiana State University Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right ass...

Guest: Lauren Hecht | Professor | Department of Psychological Science | Gustavus Adophus College Textbooks, journal articles, news pieces…these are a few examples of resources we give students to supplement course lectures and activities.  As faculty, we appreciate both the wisdom in these resources and the work it takes to produce them.  We take great care in curating the right assignments to ben...

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this 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 wrestle with personal technology in the classroom. As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us...

Guest: Zajj Daugherty | Professor | Department of Mathematics and Statistics | Reed 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 personal technology in the classroom. As always, if you have i...

Guest: Vera Coleman | Senior Lecturer and Spanish Language Program Director | Carleton 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 personal technology in the classroom. As always, if you hav...

Guest: Jennifer Sims | Associate Professor | Department of Sociology | University of Alabama Huntsville 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 personal technology in the classroom. As always, i...

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.