by Rachel Newcomb There are a lot of wonderful ideas circulating about how to make the COVID-19 pandemic part of
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Understanding Today’s Students
Originally, I set out to write a few paragraphs in an email responding to colleagues’ comments about struggling to understand
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Understanding Theory through Gallery Walks
by Amy Armenia My theory class is centered around four big questions of sociological theory (e.g., “What is the character
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Facilitating “Village” Learning in KWR 320
by Nolan Kline Any colleague who has asked me about my classes this semester has likely heard me say how
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Politics & Religion in the Classroom: Reframing the Narrative
We’ve all heard the narratives that fill impressions of the halls of higher education with stories of professors trying to
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Finding a “Commons” Space in SoTL
by Mattea A. Garcia (Assistant Professor of Communication, Rollins College) & Patti McCall (Assistant Professor-Science Librarian, Rollins College) This past
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On ‘Learning Styles,’ Again–or Oh Dear, What’s This On My Shoe?
One of the many things we now know from the last few decades of research on how people learn is
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A SoTL Mindset: Reflections on SoTL Commons Conference 2019
by Anne StoneAssociate Professor of Communication, Rollins College I recently attended the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Commons Conference
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Reading Quizzes for Learning
Instead of having a classroom full of students were obsessed with textual minutiae (minor characters’ names; dates; the color of Beowulf’s tunic etc.) and thus, kept missing the forest for the trees, I now have groups of students who know how to read a different kind of carefully.
It’s About Time
“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” –T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” “…if
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