I have greatly enjoyed my time working on the Design Forward Introduction to Pedagogy module. I honestly believe that it helped to cure some of my student burnout. As a student, it is not uncommon to feel apathetic towards education. I attribute this largely to the lack of control many students have had over their […]
Current Author Module: Introduction to Pedagogy
Where I’m Bound
I feel that an important tenant of teaching and providing students with the skills, curiosity, and support to discern their own path through education and beyond.
Martha’s Reflection on Today’s Orientation
I really wish I had checked all of the links on the Orientation home page. ?
Pete Miller: An Education Origin Story
Goal Setting
My favorite part of taking a course or participating in professional development activities is learning new things. Often that manifests itself from meeting new people and hearing/reading their perspectives, which provides me with a different viewpoint or insight into my own practice. My goal for this module is to do just that, and I hope, […]
Goals
Despite working in a higher education environment for nearly all of my adult life, I did not consider myself an educator until relatively recently. As my perspective shifted, I came to know all the ways in which I have taught students over the years, inside and outside of a classroom. Pedagogy in librarianship is often […]
Intro to Pedagogy Goals
Given my limited experience with pedagogy-specific training thus far in my academic career, I am hoping to better connect my values with my teaching style and approach strengthen the connections between the what, how, and why of my teaching and understand how my pedagogy and course goals can align to form better student outcomes. Moreover, […]
A Chance to Start Again
What would it look like to plan a course completely from scratch, calling upon the values I’ve discovered the past 13 years in higher ed? Firstly, I need to truly identify those values. On the surface, I feel like I know what some of them are: a commitment to active learning, de-emphasizing the standard exam, […]
The day I realized we are all teachers
Goal Setting
When I think of higher education and my future, I see myself in a few different roles. I would like to continue to work in Residential Life, but I also want to be a professor. I consider myself an educator, and my “classroom” a unique setting of both the residential hall and campus. As a […]
