In previous posts I talking about how I encouraged discussion by posting Questions to Consider and using Question Papers. My newest discovery is the use of Perusall. After I gave up on Question Papers for my first-year seminar, I wanted to try something new. I had read about Perusall on a variety of teaching Facebook […]
In my last post, I talked about how I used question papers to motivate my students to speak in class. Another method I’ve used in a variety of classes is to provide a list of “questions to consider” when doing readings. In this case, I provide the discussion prompts, and I expect students to write […]
I don’t love silence. One of my biggest fears as a new teacher was that I would ask students to engage with a topic and have a discussion and there would be silence. Birds chirping. I know it’s good to have a little silence to let people think, but I’ve spent a lot of time […]
I introduced myself in a separate post, but I also want to share a bit about my teaching to help you get to know me a bit better. I am a natural extravert, so I have always been drawn to big lecture classes. When I started teaching, one of my favorite classes was General Psychology […]
Hello to all! This is the first time I have blogged, and I’m excited to get started and introduce myself. In our book, we talk about how our identities shape how we view the world and areas of our lives where we have had privilege and where we have struggled. As psychologists, our identities influence […]
