On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
5 Essential Resources for Teaching Poetry in Introductory College Courses
Are you a veteran poetry teacher looking for new ideas, or are you preparing to teach poetry at the college level for for the first time? Use these resources to jumpstart your lesson planning this semester.
3 Back-to-School Active Learning Strategies
I had the pleasure of being a guest speaker at IUB’s New Faculty Orientation to talk about active learning in my GenEd courses. I’m sharing 3 active learning strategies from this session and my classroom that you can apply to your courses this fall.
Paper Balls & Digital Literary Excavation
This week, I’m sharing the active learning strategy I use to improve students’ ability to write thoughtful discussion questions, as well as a look into excavating “The Nineveh Bull” in my intro to fiction course using the social annotation tool Hypothesis.
Lesson Plan Databases & Paragraph Maps
This week, I’m sharing how I use Notion to organize my lesson plans, as well as a brief glimpse at paragraph mapping, one of my latest open educational resources.
- creative technologies
- Canva
- creativity
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- walking the walk
- career management
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- active learning
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- OER
- career documents
- course design
- lms
- BYTE
- week in the life
- lesson planning
- Adobe Express
- NTT
- woman artist
- poetry
- Women & Film
- digital portfolios
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- Interview
- assessment
- creative confidence
- reflection
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- workshops
- collaboration
- data
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- National Day on Writing
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- social annotation
- data-driven instruction
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- learning outcomes
- exit ticket
- NCTE
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- work in progress
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- podcast
- design
- authentic assessment
- scholarly teaching
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- course descriptions
- service