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
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- creativity
- career management
- lesson planning
- walking the walk
- OER
- course design
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- active learning
- BYTE
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- Adobe Express
- career documents
- poetry
- digital portfolios
- Interview
- lms
- week in the life
- NTT
- woman artist
- Women & Film
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- data
- assessment
- creative confidence
- reflection
- data-driven instruction
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- learning outcomes
- NCTE
- podcast
- workshops
- scholarly teaching
- collaboration
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- student feedback
- National Day on Writing
- feedback
- course observations
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- social annotation
- canvas
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- exit ticket
- conference
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- work in progress
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- design
- canva
- authentic assessment
- grading
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- course descriptions
- service
- course evaluations