Evolution of Teaching Perspectives

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Experienced educators reflect on the evolution of their teaching practices over 20 years, highlighting the importance of structure, communication, and responsiveness in academia. The chapter explores the challenges of balancing flexibility with maintaining course integrity and the need for sustainable approaches in high flex courses. It also delves into expressing care in educational settings, feedback strategies, and the significance of kindness and observation in the teaching journey.

Jody Greene discusses faculty’s role in student success on episode 515 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

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"We know that there are so many other important elements to students' success, their well-being, their thriving, their career pathways, their ability to pursue interests and curiosities, their engagement, their activism, and all of these multiple measures." ~ Jody Greene

The special power of literature comes from that capacity to have one foot in the factual or the real and one foot in the imagination or the fictional.
-Jody Greene

We know that there are so many other important elements to students’ success, their well-being, their thriving, their career pathways, their ability to pursue interests and curiosities, their engagement, their activism, and all of these multiple measures.
-Jody Greene

I think people care about what the institution has told them they need to care about.
-Jody Greene

I don’t think we should have expectations based on people’s gender in a classroom.
-Jody Greene