i like to be curious and interested in my students on everything from what that process brings up is really some of the deeper things that are going on in their lives. i find when i do it, i often get, what does this life thing mean? And then the second one is a documentary on h b o called the final year. It's a really well done documentary looking at the final year of obama's presidency.
Jesse Stommel shares about how to ungrade on episode 217 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
The worst rubrics don’t create space for surprise or discovery.
—Jesse Stommel
Asking [students] to evaluate themselves ends up being a really important learning experience.
—Jesse Stommel
Something as complicated as learning can’t be reduced to … rows in a spreadsheet.
—Jesse Stommel
Just taking the grade off the table doesn’t do the harder work of demystifying that culture we’ve created in education.
—Jesse Stommel