Applying Lessons from a Science Classroom to the Curricular Design of a Literary Analysis Course
TO ALL MY diehard fans, I'm sure I don't need to remind you of the major success I felt with my attempt to slay the proverbial beast that was my problem of practice. In my first blog post, I focused on the design of my Fall 2018 curriculum, in which "I sought to blend...
HOW TO CREATE AUTHENTIC LITERARY ANALYSIS WITH VOICE AND CHOICE!
An experiment in varied written assessment. I used to (and still do) believe that the repetition of writing structures is crucial in a student's ability to improve and and internalize organized literary analysis. I often assign the same structured essay three to four...
Follow Up…
My original Problem of Practice was... How might we use the product of a unit on mental health to make contributions within the ESA community? I created a survey for the students of ESA to take. They responded to the following statements with either YES, NO or...
Dendrites, Drugs and Disorders!
In my first blog post, I wrote about my desire to form student experts in neuroscience who would be able to create some kind of meaningful product for a wider audience. Instead of completing a project just for me as the teacher, and for their grade, I wanted students...
Mental Health Ambassadors at ESA
This semester I'm teaching a Human Behavior Elective for the first time. The content is interesting to me and I love planning new curricula (seriously, I really do!) so I am excited about this opportunity. With that said, because I haven't taught it before, there is...
Forming Experts in Neuroscience
This is my 4th time teaching neuroscience, a curriculum I love teaching for a few reasons. First, most students have not taken any form of neuroscience before, so all the information feels "new" and fresh to them. Second, while they may not have a lot of prior...