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Setting Faculty Up For Success: Unlocking And Using Resources To Support Faculty Development And Career Advancement, Lisa Hanasono Jul 2021

Setting Faculty Up For Success: Unlocking And Using Resources To Support Faculty Development And Career Advancement, Lisa Hanasono

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Academy Conference

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Student Academic Conversations: Benefits, Tools, And Strategies, Katie Perkins, Benjamin Cramer Jul 2021

Student Academic Conversations: Benefits, Tools, And Strategies, Katie Perkins, Benjamin Cramer

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Academy Conference

Teaching Practice: This presentation focuses on the improvment of student participation by increasing student academic conversations through the use of several instructional tools and strategies. Presenters share their personal experiences, benefits, and how to effectively implement guided student academic conversations in both virtual and in-person settings.


Existentially Guilty: Where Do I Go From Here?, Devontae Wilson Jul 2021

Existentially Guilty: Where Do I Go From Here?, Devontae Wilson

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Teachers, students, parents, and even politicians have been forced to confront the by-products of not having difficult conversations about race and class. Political pundits are using this moment in history sparked by recorded injustice and the publicized murders of unarmed black people at the hands of law enforcement to demonize Critical Race Theory (CRT), a framework created to analyze how the law is racialized. This portfolio is largely a result of Dr. Rudine Sims-Bishop’s “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” and contextualizing it through my personal experience as a classroom teacher, as a black man in a majority white, female …


Using Sports To Develop Community In The Mathematics Classroom, Benjamin Lawson Apr 2021

Using Sports To Develop Community In The Mathematics Classroom, Benjamin Lawson

Honors Projects

A positive classroom climate and community should be achieved in every classroom (Frisby, 2020, pgs. 199-200). This sense of community is especially sparse in the field of mathematics education. According to the High School Athletics Participation Survey (2019) the number of high schoolers participating in sports continues to rise. Sport ideologies could offer a bridge to connect mathematics classrooms and establish community in ways a pure educational perspective has not been able to. The purpose of this analysis is to shed light on an alternate perspective of mathematics education and incorporate sport philosophies to foster community building by establishing rapport, …


Final Master's Portfolio, Elaina Halverstadt Apr 2021

Final Master's Portfolio, Elaina Halverstadt

Master of Arts in English Plan II Graduate Projects

Practical matters of teaching college writing are the primary focus of this portfolio. Specific topics include an exploration of best practices in preparation for teaching an online college writing course, a rationale for introducing technical writing into an institution as a co-taught interdisciplinary course, a four-week teaching unit for teaching grammar concepts through creative writing, and a resource guide for teaching an introductory technical writing course at the college level.