Teaching in Higher Ed The Spark of Learning Reprise
May 10, 2018
36:55
Sarah Rose Cavanagh shares about her book, The Spark of Learning, and more on episode 204 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Students are not going to learn if they’re not engaged, if they’re not curious.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Students will remain engaged … if we initially generate excitement.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
We need to be authentically ourselves.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
We need to be attentive to the fact that there lots of different ways to portray that passion to be the spark.
—Sarah Rose Cavanagh
Resources Mentioned
- Sarah also shared about the Spark of Learning on episode 135
- The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion by Sarah Rose Cavanagh*
- Kentina Smith’s Blog Post on Emotional Hooks
- Christopher Emdin
- 5 min TED talk: Teach Teachers How to Create Magic
- Tweet about Dave Stachowiak’s chemistry teacher
- HBR Women at Work Podcast
- Lead with Authenticity episode
- Derek Bruff Shares about Times for Telling on episode 71
- For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too by Christopher Emdin *
- Poster at Association for Psychological Science Conference in May
- Sarah’s New Book – HIVEMIND: The Perils and Promise of Our Collective Social Selves is coming in March of 2019 via Grand Central Publishing