Teaching for Student Success

Steven Robinow
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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.

  1. 11/07/2023

    Grades Do Harm! And Who Are They For Anyway? with Jesse Stommel

    Grades demotivate student learning.  That is a problem.  Faculty also often spend significant amounts of time grading.  Another problem.  So, if we know grading demotivates learning and we are spending lots of our time grading, are we working against ourselves? Are we working against the goals of our courses?  Isn’t our goal to motivate students to learn, and then provide them with the resources they need to move from novice towards expert?  In this episode Dr. Jesse Stommel talks about the problems with and possible solutions for the traditional grading system in which most of us participate.

    1h 11m

  2. 08/31/2023

    Inclusive Excellence: Content Is Not Enough!

    Content isn’t enough!  The classroom environment that you create can foster learning or impede learning.  If you really are here for all of your students, and I think you are, then it is critical to ensure that the environment you provide is one the fosters learning for all students.  In this episode Dr. Oscar Fernandez discusses Inclusive Excellence at Wellesley College, an effort to create a community of faculty, students, and staff working to ensure that all students feel a sense of belonging in their higher education community and that all students are supported in their efforts to excel.

    1h 15m

  3. 05/22/2023

    The Syllabus Lives: Known, Needed & Cared For with Matthew Cheney

    A huge amount of information must be provided to students at the outset of every course.  Enter the SYLLABUS!  A universal one-way communication tool that can set the tone for your course and for your relationship with your students.  It defines the rules of engagement - the struggle for power between student and faculty.  In this episode we talk about the syllabus; how it is used, how it can be used and how it can be abused with Dr. Matthew Cheney who has written extensively about the cruelty-free syllabus.

    44 min

  4. 04/07/2023

    Alternative Grading: Working With Students, Not Against Them with David Clark and Robert Talbert

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    1h 16m

  5. 03/15/2023

    Peer Mentoring’s Long Term Impact: Time for National Implementation?

    For decades, the United States has been trying to increase the number of STEM professionals from underrepresented groups - with limited success.  Retention and persistence at the undergraduate level, and advancement to graduate degrees continue to be problematic areas.  In this episode we talk with Dr. Nilanjana Dasgupta about her fascinating long-term study on the impact of peer mentors on the persistence, retention, and advancement to graduate degrees of female engineering students.  This is an amazing study following 150 students through their entire undergraduate academic career and one year beyond! The simplicity and success of this intervention is surprising.  There are lessons here for all disciplines that experience equity and inclusivity issues.

    1h 16m

  6. 02/14/2023

    Ungrading in Practice: No Going Back with Dr. Sue Steiner

    UNGRADING! You might already implement some form of UNGRADING but it is more likely that you don’t.  Perhaps you heard of UNGRADING and dismissed it, or thought about it but decided it wasn’t the right time, or decided it wasn’t right for you or your students, or thought the whole idea was insane, or perhaps you don’t know anything about UNGRADING at all.  Perhaps this is the first time you have even heard that term. Whatever your prior knowledge is or isn’t about UNGRADING - please listen Dr. Sue Steiner of Chico State talk about her motivations to implement and her experiences with UNGRADING.  This conversation may convince you that now is time to take the UNGRADING plunge.

    58 min

  7. 01/25/2023

    Learning vs. Feelings of Learning: Paradox Tested

    OLD NEWS: A 2014 meta-analysis by Scott Freeman and colleagues of 225 peer-reviewed studies concluded that students taught in an active learning environment significantly outperform peers taught using more traditional formats.   CURRENT STATUS:  Most colleges and universities are still a long way from full adoption of these practices.  The reasons are complex.  Resistance comes from institutions and often from faculty, but also from students.  We have trained our students to think that traditional lecturing is THE way to learn, in spite of mountains of evidence to the contrary. In this episode, we discuss an elegant, controlled classroom study by Louis Deslauriers and colleagues that again tests the value of active learning, but importantly then pays attention to the student perspective and provides suggestions about getting students on board the active-learning band-wagon.  This is a beautiful and important study.  Enjoy!

    51 min

  8. 01/04/2023

    Inclusify Your Teaching: Learning is for Everyone with Kelly Hogan and Viji Sathy

    In higher education our introductory classes are more diverse than ever.  That’s great!  Our graduating classes?  Less diverse. That’s bad!  Faculty play a critical role in this loss of diversity and therefore have a responsibility to address the issue.  In this episode, Dr. Viji Sathy and Dr. Kelly Hogan, authors of “Inclusive Teaching: Strategies for Promoting Equity in the College Classroom” (2022) discuss a wide range of evidence-based practices that can help our most challenged, our most diverse students succeed, improving classroom equity.  Please listen, then take action!

    1h 13m
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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.

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  • Creator
    Steven Robinow
  • Years Active
    2021 - 2023
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2024 Teaching for Student Success
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    Teaching for Student Success