Beyond the Pride Month Syllabus
Three resources to help you create safe spaces for queer students.
Using Peers for Scaffolding
What do peer-generated questions accomplish in the learning process… and what are their limitations?
Beyond the Syllabus: Editing, Revising, Growing
Three new (and old) calls to embrace, invigorate, and develop reflective practice.
Beyond the Syllabus: Exploring Audiobooks in Earnest
What if audiobooks could lead students to more creative reading and better listening?
Beyond the Syllabus: Reckonings, Hellfire, and Software Engineering
This week’s Beyond the Syllabus pinpoints three bright fires worth approaching more closely. Book Cathy Park Hong, Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning. Even before the Atlanta shootings rocked the United States with another round of debates over gun violence and what is or is not a racially-motivated violence, Hong’s collection of essays was a…
Footnotes: Video Reflections to promote Text-Centered discussion
A group of teacher-researchers suggest that video might be teachers’ key to better professional development as discussion practitioners.
Beyond the Syllabus for Women’s History Month
Three sources to expand your vision of womanhood, across history and now.
The Case for Shifting Formality
Two recent articles push us to expand the formality of language and setting that counts as “engagement” in discussion-based courses.
Discourse in our Time
This week’s Beyond the Syllabus brings together of-the-moment public debates, critical research, and retellings of history that cause us to renew our perspective on and passion for discourse in the classroom and beyond.
Stealth Assessment
Even without sophisticated video games at our disposal, we find Shute and Ventura’s embrace of games for formative assessment inspiring and wonder, after reading, what it might look like for teachers to enact “stealth” assessments in existing classrooms without sophisticated technology.
