Let me start by saying….I loved the new Netflix documentary, Will & Harper. In the midst of the semester, I was feeling bogged down, and with social and political conflicts whirling around, Will & Harper was the breath of fresh air that I didn’t know I needed. Will & Harper, follows Will Ferrell and Harper Steele. […]
I get it – most students don’t like group work. I didn’t really like group work when I was a student either. After all, work is often not divided evenly. Everyone in the group may not have the same goals for the project or class. It can be hard to know who brings what skills […]
The first time I listened to the podcast, The Retrievals, I knew I was going to teach it in Psychology of Women & Gender. The five-part series chronicles the story of dozens of women who sought fertility treatment at the Yale Fertility Center starting in 2019. The women featured in the story underwent IVF treatment. […]
In this post I want to talk about my use of “extension assignments” as a way to extend student learning in class and give students the ability to focus their learning, in a relatively low-stakes assignment, on material that interests them. My extension assignments are 5-10 minute presentations on a topic of a student’s interest […]
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 […]
We cover research methods in the latter part of Chapter 1 in the 1st edition of our textbook. We moved and expanded our research methods coverage to Chapter 3 in the 2nd edition of our book. In both of these chapters, we have a feature where we challenge students to find a news story talking […]
