
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.
From Semester Prep to Career Prep: Questions to Prompt Faculty Reflection
I’m kicking off a new mini-series designed to help you reflect on your goals and commitments as you navigate life inside and outside the classroom. Each semester is a chance to pause and take stock, in this case of your of service commitments, areas for growth, and how you’ll document your impact.
3 Back-to-School Canvas Tips
I consistently receive comments in my student evaluations about how much they appreciate the intentional and transparent design of my Canvas pages and how organized it keeps us. I’m sharing three tips (and some custom code!) to level up your Canvas sites and improve your own students’ experience.
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.
Bringing BYTE to Future Faculty
A recap of our week-long, three-part BYTE workshop series attended by future faculty and educational developers from the United States and abroad for POD Network’s Graduate Student, Professional Student, and Postdoctoral Scholar Development Special Interest Group.
3 Back-to-School Canva Tips for Educators
I’m sharing three ways I use Canva to advertise my courses, customize my LMS, and create easily editable and shareable course materials.
Teaching Composition with Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe died on this day sixty-three years ago, on August 4, 1962. Ever since, she has remained an enigmatic, spectral presence in the public imagination. These days, she haunts my composition classroom.
Are You a Scholarly Teacher? 3 Questions to Ask Yourself
Whether you're a teaching-track faculty member starting your career or looking to enhance your scholarly teaching practices, this blog series will guide you to pause, reflect, and define what scholarly teaching means for you. In this post, we explore scholarly teaching through my ORCHID acronym, offering actionable insights for the upcoming school year.
Why I Teach Book Cover Design (& How You Can Too with My Free Resource)
This week, I am wrapping up teaching an eight-week, online version of my “Putting the Lit in Literacies” Intro to Fiction course here at IU Bloomington. To celebrate the occasion, I want to share an updated look at one of my favorite summative assessments.
3 Digital Tools to Power Your Fall Course Design
Whether you are a faculty member looking for course design inspiration or an educational developer seeking new strategies to support your colleagues, we can all benefit from tools that can make the course design process more flexible, collaborative, and student-centered.
Toward a Philosophy of Faculty Development
Writing a FDP helps you capture and distill the inner voice— informed by many years of scholarship, professionalization, and experience— that intuitively guides the choices you make when planning, delivering, and assessing a program or workshop.
New Publication: Rethinking the Teaching Philosophy Statement with BYTE
Let’s flip the teaching philosophy script to reimagine this important career document as a creative platform for self-efficacy and intentional storytelling.
- Canva
- creative technologies
- Branding Your Teaching Excellence
- creativity
- career management
- philosophy statement
- discussion
- back-to-school
- Canvas
- walking the walk
- career documents
- active learning
- lms
- BYTE
- week in the life
- Adobe Express
- course design
- woman artist
- Women & Film
- digital portfolios
- creative women
- education
- evidence
- Interview
- reflection
- lesson planning
- multimodality
- honors curriculum
- OER
- NTT
- workshops
- poetry
- collaboration
- accessibility
- Elizabeth Taylor
- future faculty
- Hypothesis
- assessment
- Kate Chopin
- Notion
- creative confidence
- social annotation
- Publication
- close reading
- teaching award
- literacy
- Mary Blair
- learning outcomes
- Trello
- reading roundup
- Marilyn Monroe
- remediation
- SoTL
- icebreaker
- composition
- podcast
- design
- authentic assessment
- scholarly teaching
- Radio
- multimodal literacy
- women & tech
- cv
- service