Dr. Crystal Anderson returns to discuss the practical aspects of course design, transparency, and productively using feedback in our course. This relates to our overall intentionality about how we approach teaching to support all students’ learning. We also talk about how to approach teaching if you are handed a pre-made syllabus.

For more information about student evaluations:

• El-Alayli, A., Hansen-Brown, A. A., & Ceynar, M. (2018). Dancing backwards in high heels: Female professors experience more work demands and special favor requests, particularly from academically entitled students. Sex roles, 79, 136-150.
• Boring, A., & Ottoboni, K. (2016). Student evaluations of teaching (mostly) do not measure teaching effectiveness. ScienceOpen research.
• Kreitzer, R. J., & Sweet-Cushman, J. (2021). Evaluating student evaluations of teaching: A review of measurement and equity bias in SETs and recommendations for ethical reform. Journal of Academic Ethics, 1-12.

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We welcome Dr. Crystal Anderson for a conversation about what teaching looks like today, particularly coming off several years of pandemic teaching. We also explore how we engage students across different modalities, whether face-to-face, hybrid, online, or others.

Stearns Center Teaching Online: https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/knowledge-center/online-teaching/

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Dr. Shelley Reid returns for a follow-up conversation about how we create a classroom that supports all students – and the instructors – to create an environment of educational success through policies, procedures, assessment, and more.

Reality, equity, equality, and justice figure: https://www.bu.edu/diversity/resource-toolkit/inequity-equality-equity-and-justice/

Stearns Center resource – Designing for Flexibility: https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/21-Course-Design-Flexibility-ALL-Policies.pdf

Stearns Center Face-to-Face and/or Hybrid Teaching Resources (see Course Design & Organization Basics section for Life Happens Pass): https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/knowledge-center/hybrid-teaching-resources/

Fast Learner/Slow Learner news article: https://www.cmu.edu/news/stories/archives/2023/march/the-myth-of-the-fast-learner

Fast/Learner Slow Learner original research article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2221311120

Example Exam Wrapper from the American Psychological Association: https://www.apa.org/ed/precollege/topss/teaching-resources/exam-wrapper.pdf

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