Teaching in Focus (TIF) annual teaching and learning conference at York Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons When I arrived at York back in November 2011, my first impression was one of a challenge as I had to negotiate a rather large building site in front of Kaneff Tower. I could not enter the building from the […]
Evidence for Experience: Emerging Conversations in the Scholarship of Experiential Education Lisa Endersby, Educational Developer, Teaching Commons My recent weeks in the Teaching Commons have seen a renewed and not entirely surprising interest in experiential education, both as a practice and as pedagogy. Stemming from much broader conversations around creating transformative educational experiences for our […]
March 2017 Teaching Commons Journal Club – Community Based Research and student learning Yelin Su, Educational Developer, Teaching Commons In our March 2017 Journal Club, we discussed the article Community-Based Research and Student Learning ( Hertner, Reid-Maroney, & Bell, 2016). This article is a reflection on student’s learning experience with the community based learning in two third-year […]
Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy Part V: “Imagine Otherwise” – Ways Forward We live in an unequal world; these inequalities do not stop at the university classroom door. In this five-part series, I consider some ways unjust inequalities are (re)produced in the classroom. These inequalities affect the pedagogical relationship. Moreover, critically investigating them […]
I’m aiming to break my class out of the cycle of “memorizing & forgetting” Dawn Bazely – Faculty of Science First published January 15, 2014 I haven’t taught BIOL 4090.40, Plant Ecology for nearly 10 years. It’s been shifted from Fall to Winter term, meaning the entire lab. component needed changing because of the different season, and […]
Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy Part IV: As Professors, We are Not All Equal Before Our Students We live in an unequal world; these inequalities do not stop at the university classroom door. In this five-part series, I consider some ways unjust inequalities are (re)produced in the classroom. These inequalities affect the pedagogical […]
Do you ever wonder what Active Learning could ‘taste’ like? Andrea Valente – Teaching Commons Tutor The Teaching Commons hosted its monthly meeting of the Journal Club on this past February 15th, 2017. Our discussion of the article “Is active learning like broccoli? Student perceptions of active learning in large lecture classes” (Smith and Cardaciotto, […]
Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy Part III: The Practical Challenges of Broadening the Scholarly Canon We live in an unequal world; these inequalities do not stop at the university classroom door. In this five-part series, I consider some ways unjust inequalities are (re)produced in the classroom. These inequalities affect the pedagogical relationship. Moreover, critically […]
Epilogue In this 5 part series, Mandy Frake Mistak from the Teaching Commons provides an insight into her experience running and Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) at the University of Lincoln in the UK. We woke up on our last morning in Lincoln to the first of grey skies. Still it was worthwhile to head into town and […]
Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy Part II: The Problems with the Conscientious Pedagogue Elaine Coburn, Glendon We live in an unequal world; these inequalities do not stop at the university classroom door. In this five-part series, I consider some ways unjust inequalities are (re)produced in the classroom. These inequalities affect the pedagogical relationship. […]