Teaching for Student Success
A podcast for instructors in higher education who may be pressed for time, to learn about evidence-based teaching practices that have been shown to improve student success, equity, and inclusivity.
- Update frequency
- every 19 days
- Average duration
- 51 minutes
- Episodes
- 33
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2023
Supporting All Students: The Why and How of Inclusive Teaching with Dr. Tracie Marcella Addy
Dr. Tracie Marcella Addy, Associate Dean of Teaching and Learning at Lafayette College discusses her 2021 book “What Inclusive Instructors Do. Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teac…
A Better Way to Learn: Helping Students Adopt Retrieval Practice. An Interview with Robert Ariel.
Dr. Robert Ariel, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Virginia Wesleyan University discusses his research on a simple approach that may help students adopt a proven study method - retrieval practice…
Beyond the Exclusive-Inclusive Paradigm: Who do you want your students to be? An Interview with Bryan Dewsbury.
Enjoy a conversation with Dr. Bryan Dewsbury about an approach to inclusive instruction that goes beneath the mechanics of your courses. We don’t talk about what your syllabus looks like, how you eng…
Group Work: Problems, Frequency and Success of Mediation. Part 2. More with Peggy Brickman.
Welcome to Part 2 of my conversation with Peggy Brickman about group work. In part 1 of this episode, we discussed her 2018 paper entitled WHEN GROUP WORK DOESN’T WORK. INSIGHTS FROM STUDENTS. In …
Group Work: What Could Go Wrong? with Peggy Brickman. Part 1.
If you are interested in using group work in your courses but might be a bit intimidated, if you are using group work but are frustrated by it, if you have used group work but have sworn it off, I en…
What is a Jigsaw?
In less than a minute and a half, I describe a group work method referred to as a Jigsaw. It was referred to in Episode 8 Part 1. I realized a definition might be helpful.
Learning is a Skill: Why do we keep it a secret? An Interview with Mark McDaniel.
Dr. Mark McDaniel of Washington University, author of “Make It Stick”, discusses learning and the importance of recognizing that learning is a skill. A skill that can and should be learned, a skill …
Ungrading: Renaissance Humanism and the Challenges of Assessment. An Interview with Susan Blum.
Dr. Susan Blum (University of Notre Dame), a Renaissance Humanist (look it up) discusses her recent book, UNGRADING: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and what to do instead). In this episode…
Connected Teaching: The Importance of Relationships. An Interview with Harriet L. Schwartz
Dr. Harriet Schwartz of Antioch University discusses her recent book, “Connected Teaching: Relationship, Power, and Mattering in Higher Education”. Most faculty spend a significant part of their liv…
Recall Reinforces Learning: Evidence for Retrieval Practice. An Interview with Jeff Karpicke.
Dr. Jeff Karpicke of Purdue University discusses his research on retrieval based learning showing that repeated testing of students without repeated study sessions results in higher rates of learning…
The Written Word: Simple Changes Have A Big Effect. An Interview with Bill Davis
Dr. Bill Davis of Washington State University discusses two simple, non-content interventions that improve student success and decrease the equity gap. You will be amazed how a simple wording chang…
The Spoken Word: How Your Words Impact Your Students. An Interview with Kimberly Tanner
Dr. Kimberly Tanner of San Francisco State University discusses her work documenting and coding the non-content talk that facutly use as they speak to students during class sessions. This work establ…
With Great Power: Why A Nobel Prize Winning Physicist Became An Education Researcher. An Interview with Carl Wieman.
Dr. Carl Wieman, who was awarded a Nobel Prize for Physics in 2001, discusses his motivation to move away from fundamental physics research to the world of education research. Dr. Wieman tells a stor…