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Please Talk About Your Kids at Work (Even If It Feels Weird) |
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Nichole DeWall
Faculty with children are often prone to economist Emily Oster calls “secret parenting”—for example, removing evidence of kids from your workspace and avoiding any mention of childcare-related scheduling conflicts. It’s a practice worth challenging—and resisting. Read More |
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Kara Wunderlich
Many discussions exist about how to add scaffolding during course and assignment design, but less guidance is provided on how to remove that scaffolding across the semester. Even less direction is available on what to do if withdrawing scaffolding creates new challenges. Here are ways to address three common pitfalls with removing scaffolds. Read More
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John Orlando
As disciplinary experts, we think at a level that uses far more knowledge of our fields than an undergraduate has, and we often assume that level of knowledge in our explanations to students. How do we escape this impasse? Read More |
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Maryellen Weimer
This review of an influential meta-analysis offers a run-down of some key generalizations from research on student motivation and their implications.
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