T5: Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together

If you have ever faced some tension in your role as a professor, then you are in the right place.  Welcome to T5 - Talking Through Teaching Tensions Together.  Join us as we talk through strategies for navigating some of the challenges of academia.

Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is universal, so it seems is the struggle to get students to engage with it.  In our first series, we discuss approaches to designing and discussing the syllabus to encourage student engagement.  In this episode, we welcome Amy Vizenor, Associate Professor in Education at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Guest: Emma Dosmar | Clinical Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering | University of Illinois(formerly Associate Professor within Department of Biomedical Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)
Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is universal, so it seems is the struggle to get students to engage with it.  In our first series, we discuss approaches to designing and discussing the syllabus to encourage student engagement.

Guest: Jennifer Gorman | Assistant Professor | Department of Mathematics | Lake Superior State University
Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is universal, so it seems is the struggle to get students to engage with it.  In our first series, we discuss approaches to designing and discussing the syllabus to encourage student engagement. 

Guest: Kelly McConville | Director, Dominguez Center for Data Science | Bucknell University
Whether our class is more quantitative or more qualitative, whether it includes experiments to validate theoretical results in the sciences or discussions of techniques and meaning present in great works of art, all our courses share one thing in common — a syllabus.  Just as the syllabus is universal, so it seems is the struggle to get students to engage with it.  In our first series, we discuss approaches to designing and discussing the syllabus to encourage student engagement.

In this episode, the T5 team comes together to recap the episodes in this first series.  We discuss what we learned in speaking with our guests, the questions that still remain, and what we look forward to trying in our classes as we encourage our students to engage with the course syllabus.

Guest: Kate Aguilar | Assistant Professor | Department of History, African Studies, and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies | Gustavus Adolphus College
Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom.
As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podteam@gmail.com.

Guest: Madeline Gangnes | Assistant Professor | English, Center for Literary and Performing Arts | University of Scranton
Madeline's website: https://mbgangnes.com
Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom.
As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podteam@gmail.com.

Guest: Jennifer Sims | Associate Professor | Department of Sociology | University of Alabama Huntsville
Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom.
As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podteam@gmail.com.

Guest: Vera Coleman | Senior Lecturer and Spanish Language Program Director | Carleton College
Cell phones, tablets, laptops - these technologies are integral to most of our daily routines, and they can also be huge distractions in the classroom. In this series, we explore various approaches faculty have taken to addressing student use of personal technology in the classroom.
As always, if you have ideas for topics you would like us to discuss, or if you would like to be a guest on T5, email us as t5podteam@gmail.com.