Podcast #81: Becoming a Teacher with Kevin Gannon
Kevin Gannon is the director of the Center of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, and he’s als...
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The Teach Better Podcast
The Teach Better Podcast is a series of conversations with teachers about teaching. We talk mostly with faculty in higher education, but will occasionally talk with other teachers too. Your...
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20 of 81 episodesPodcast #80: Classrooms for Active Learning with Robert Talbert
The evidence is clear that when students work actively in the classroom, they learn more. It's also true that most of the classrooms we teac...
Podcast #79: The Fundamentals of Teaching with Doug Robertson
Our guest today, Doug Robertson, is one of the best teachers on the planet. He teaches 4th grade at Powell Valley Elementary School outside...
Podcast #78: Edward and Doug Debrief
This fall Doug and Edward both taught classes of their own. In their latest episode, they reflect on their challenges, what they tried, and...
Podcast #77: Active Learning, Motivation, and Peer Assessment with Jose Vazquez
Jose Vasquez has been teaching economics at the University of Illinois for 14 years. He teaches one of the largest introductory microeconomi...
Podcast #76: Applying Teaching Insights across Disciplines with Justin Cerenzia
Justin Cerenzia teaches history at St George’s School in Middletown, Rhode Island. We don’t usually have guests from high schools on the sho...
Podcast #75: Classroom Observation with Marilyne Stains
Outside observers can give instructors valuable formative feedback, and with the right observers and the right instruments, classroom observ...
Podcast #74: Engaged Learning with Monroe Weber-Shirk
Monroe Weber-Shirk has taught engineering at Cornell for 24 years, and in 2005 he started the AguaClara Cornell program where he works close...
Podcast #73: Teaching Physics Teachers with Mac Stetzer
Mac Stetzer from the University of Maine Physics Department is an active physics education researcher with lots of experience teaching teach...
Podcast #72: Course Evaluations with Betsy Barre
Everyone has an opinion about course evaluations, but most of these opinions are based on personal anecdotes and armchair speculation. Our g...
Podcast #71: Virtual Reality and Teaching with Andrea Stevenson Won
Andrea Stevenson Won is an assistant professor in the Cornell Communication Department where she directs the Virtual Embodiment Lab. She stu...
Podcast #70: Encouraging Creativity with Robert Sternberg
Cornell psychologist Robert Sternberg has done seminal work on creativity, wisdom, and cognitive styles. He cares deeply about higher educat...
Podcast #69: Extreme Teaching
In this episode we take a walk through our archive and share some amazing examples of extreme teaching. These include college classes in pri...
Podcast #68: Teaching Online with Doug, Edward, and Laura Gibbs
Laura Gibbs has been teaching mythology and folklore online since 2002 for the University of Oklahoma. For the past five summers, Doug has t...
Podcast #67: Beyond Multiple Choice with Mark Urban-Lurain
Mark Urban-Lurain is the Associate Director for Engineering Education Research at Michigan State University. He's also the Principle Investi...
Podcast #66: Concept Inventories with Michelle Smith
Michelle Smith is an Associate Professor in the School of Biology and Ecology at the University of Maine, and she's one of the world's leadi...
Podcast #65: Modeling Instruction with Eric Brewe
Modeling Instruction (MI) is a curriculum and pedagogy based on the idea that science learning involves creation, use, validation, and revis...
Podcast #64: Collaborative Exams with Teddy Svoronos
Teddy Svoronos is a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He’s most well known for his creative use of t...
Podcast #63: A Better Way to Integrate Student Presentations into the Classroom with Ileen Devault
Ileen Devault is a historian in Cornell’s Industrial and Labor Relations school. In this episode she talks with us how about how she shares...
Podcast #62: Reinventing Science Labs with Natasha Holmes
Our guest is Natasha Holmes, an Assistant Professor in the Cornell Physics Department who specializes in physics education research. For the...