Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Then, after I have really heightened your curiosity and you can barely stand the suspense anymore, I will share a few books that I have found beneficial in growing my skills as an educator. The way that books have nourished my teaching has been in the area of identifying and refining my teaching philosophy and general pedagogical approaches.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2020

You’ve written about your experiences in classrooms and at education institutions where teachers and the broader learning environment and the culture of the community either affirmed or racially abused students. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? Is that how you teach?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. Imagine the students with the least and the most experience using educational videos.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2023

I mean, it's good to go over teaching philosophies and models, but I wish it was a little more hands on. So for me, seeing what was going on with the culture wars and seeing all these teachers leaving after the pandemic, I felt like if any time is the right time to do this, it's now. Sometimes I wonder, ‘Is it worth it?’

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other. Is that something you see in the college students you teach?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

And NBC even created a series of short animated videos starring this Clemson professor explaining basic ideas of moral philosophy that they’ve put on the network’s YouTube channel. Which raises the question: how much should colleges use pop culture in their courses?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Sometimes it’s something simple like a product to try, other times it’s more nuanced—a new perspective on a challenge or an idea for inspiring a culture more inclined to change on campus. Approaching online course development from perspective of teaching philosophy in general (and not development) can be a more useful inroad for faculty.” -Ben

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