Planning our Teaching

Planning our Teaching

This pinned post will be updated with links to other posts as I make them.  Walk through your semester/quarter/term with these ideas for teaching:

  1. Thinking: What Do Our Syllabi Really Say?
  2. Thinking: Academia is Ableist
  3. Thinking: Dis/ability
  4. Thinking: Hunger is an Educational Issue
  5. FAQ: Content Warnings
  6. Thinking: Strong Emotional Reactions
  7. Thinking: Where Do We Stand
  8. First day exercise: What Do Historians Do?
  9. First day exercise: What Do Historians Do (II)?
  10. First day exercise and more sources: Revisiting the First Day
  11. First day exercise and reflection by Jennifer Sessions: Contextualizing Sources on the First Day
  12. First day exercise: The Social Identity Wheel
  13. First day exercise: Co-Creating the Syllabus
  14. Teaching: SOCC it! (Source, Observe, Contextualize, Corroborate)
  15. Teaching: SOCC at the AHA
  16. Teaching: Planning linked primary source assignments
  17. Teaching: Bias and Perspective
  18. Teaching: Talking about Primary Sources
  19. Teaching: The Art of the Draw
  20. Thinking: Curiosity
  21. Thinking: The Index Card
  22. Teaching: Having Students Teach
  23. Teaching: Reverse Engineering Footnotes and Bibliographies
  24. Teaching: Human Asset Maps
  25. Teaching: Teaching Academic Integrity
  26. Teaching: Applying Knowledge
  27. Teaching: Attentiveness and its Lack
  28. Teaching: Rethinking the Library
  29. Teaching: Teaching Students to Write History
  30. Teaching: Teaching Writing II
  31. Teaching: Visual Check Lists for Assignments
  32. Making the Grade: Thinking About Ungrading
  33. Teaching: Ungrading in a Pandemic
  34. Teaching: Going Gradeless
  35. Teaching: Refining the Grade
  36. Teaching: The Unessay
  37. Teaching: Timelining Mythologies
  38. Teaching: Fun With Scissors Day
  39. Teaching: Teaching Pedagogy
  40. Teaching: Reading Reflections
  41. Teaching: ChatGPT and All That Follows
  42. Teaching: Big Syllabus Changes: When Less is More
  43. Final Thoughts: A Different View of the U.S. Civil War
  44. The Last Day: Reflecting on What We’ve Learned
  45. Thinking: Dear Seniors
  46. The Pandemic: A Pedagogy of the Past
  47. The Pandemic: Slow Your Roll
  48. The Pandemic: Beginning Again
  49. The Pandemic: I Am a Rank Beginner
  50. The Pandemic: Five Things I’ve Learned This Summer
  51. The Pandemic: It Can All Be Changed
  52. The Pandemic: Business as Usual
  53. The Pandemic: A Letter from the Floor

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