One person got a 79. That was so hard. So did they then need to resubmit? Or is that not an option for an exam? Bonnie: I wanted to just eliminate the lecture entirely and only be doing activities in class. And since then I've been trying to figure out how much lecture do I add back in? How do I do it in a way that's responding to students needs? She says there are still parts that are confusing but those emerge from whole class discussion.
Rebecca Price shares how to not be perfect in teaching and learning on episode 450 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
When is it ok to say I made a mistake?
-Rebecca Price
I embrace mistakes.
-Rebecca Price
Perfection does not mean learning.
-Rebecca Price
Resources
- Lucy (Australopithecus)
- Apple Fitness+ Time to Walk with Anderson Cooper
- The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells Us about the Mind, by Patricia K Kuhl, Alison Gopnik, Andrew N. Meltzoff*
- The paleobiology database
- Becca’s Science Methods and Practice Course Syllabus
- Specifications Grading: Restoring Rigor, Motivating Students, and Saving Faculty time, by Linda Nilson
- Episode 443 with David Clark: Arbitrary Limits (including due dates)
- A Time for Telling, Schwartz and Bransford
- Classroom sound can be used to classify teaching practices in college science courses, Melinda T. Owens, Shannon B. Seidel, Mike Wong, and Kimberly D. Tanner
- TextExpander’s public groups – with ready-made snippets you can add to your collection and use
- TextExpander Physics-Greek Symbols snippets