Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 27th, 2017
The following post is by Michael O’Hare, and it was posted on April 6, 2016 on the Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning website http://teaching.berkeley.edu<http://teaching.berkeley.edu/> . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License 2013 (may be reproduced with credit for non-commercial purposes.<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/deed.en_US> Michael O’Hare’s blog: http://www.samefacts.com/ Adapted from “Tomorrow’s-professor” Digest, […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2017
With this semester quickly nearing its end, the Thanksgiving weekend offers a moment to reflect: How have your classes been going lately? Whatever your answer, you still have time to make some changes to end the semester on a high note. Flip back through your teaching notes. What were your learning goals, and have you […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 13th, 2017
The biggest grading mistake I made as a first time TA was to give the kind and amount of feedback that I, as a graduate student, wished I would have been receiving from my professors. I spent hours grading student work, sometimes handwriting twenty thorough comments on a single short essay, only to watch in […]
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Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 6th, 2017
This post suggests that the classroom should be considered as a model that students can use to achieve social justice in the world. This is a particularly urgent topic for those teaching at Notre Dame, since socially infused pedagogy is an integral part of its mission statement, which defines social justice in its promise “to […]
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