Musing 3 on Teaching about Race
As I’ve been reflecting on teaching about race in the U.S., I returned to the framework I first encountered in a webinar taught by some great pioneers in multicultural education, Christine A. Stanley and Mathew Ouellett. (I adapted their framework in the image to the right.) For inclusive teaching, they advised we think carefully about who it is we are teaching.
Continue reading Who We TeachHave you ever before heard faculty talk so much about emotions?
Cathy Davidson, author of The New Education, asserted on the HASTAC blog that “our summer of planning for better online learning this Fall will be wasted if we do not begin from the premise that our students are learning from a place of dislocation, anxiety, and trauma. So are we.”
“Precarity, uncertainty, grief and feeling overwhelmed abound,” observed Becca Pope-Ruark in Inside Higher Education. She cautioned faculty to pay attention to signs of debilitating burnout.
Continue reading Emotions in TeachingReview: Flower Darby with James M. Lang, Small Teaching Online (Jossey-Bass, 2019)
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve been desperate to read advice on how to teach well online. Since we may well be teaching remotely again sooner or later, I decided to read and review Flower Darby’s Small Teaching Online.
Bottom line: Yes, I think it’s well worth a read.……..
But before you read: Clear your mind. Give yourself a treat for having survived the spring. Take a vacation.
Continue reading Online Teaching: “Small” but Powerful
Mary Jo Festle 