Fall 2022: Spotlight on Pedagogy
Tenth Edition
NEW STORIES
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Teaching as a team with the History Lab facultyLast semester four faculty members from across the university taught for the first time the History Lab, a mix of creative technologies, storytelling, and regional history.
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Crawl, Walk, Run: Preparing students for the real worldAt the 2022 Summer Institute, Matthew Komelski, an advanced instructor in the Department of Human Development and Human Science, shared a framework for structuring his classes that he first learned during his time in the Marine Corps called “Crawl, Walk, Run.”
FROM PREVIOUS ISSUES
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Teaching Complexity: How John Chermak uses poster sessions for his Pathways studentsAt it’s best, the poster sessions (and the university’s Pathways to General Education program) creates a valuable feedback loop between the specific, technical training students get in their majors and the broader societal and global context for their future careers.
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Authentic Teaching with Hannah ShinaultEach year new teaching techniques - like multimedia assignments and gamification - become buzzwords for college instructors. While trying something new in your classroom can be a great idea, Shinault says, students aren’t looking for entertainment from their lectures.
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Flipping the ScriptWhen Virginia Tech shifted to online teaching during the Spring 2020 semester, biology instructor Meg Emori found herself trying to teach students spread across 11 time zones. Her solution? Build engagement with digital escape rooms.