A strategy you can use TODAY for your classes.

Megan and Shannon share quick ideas you can use to get students prepared for and involved in class discussion by using the 'pass to class' concept, and how to use 'exit tickets' to collect information from students about their questions or confidence with course content at the end of a class.

Alice Cahill, Ed.D. joins us to talk about her use of movement in the college classroom to help students learn a series of information. The example she shares is used in her special education teacher education classroom, but this strategy could be applied to any content as a way to get students up and talking about topics in any classroom.

Join Dr. Janet Graham for a discussion about using existing examples as mentors for assignments. This conversation will have you reimagining how you help your students learn to evaluate and emulate content in your field.

In this short FlashPOD episode, Shannon Mulhearn gives a brief overview of the Transformative Learning Theory and then provides a few examples of how you might apply the theory by design classroom activities that help learners understand your content in a more individual or personal way.

Mezirow, J. (2000). Learning as transformation: Critical perspectives on a theory in

progress. Jossey-Bass.

Mulhearn, S. C., Adkins, M., & Ellison, D. W. (2023). Planting seeds of mindfulness during teacher preparation. Journal of Trauma Studies in Education. 2(2), 83-101. https://doi.org/10.32674/jtse.v2i2.5206

Dr. Rebecca Nelson discusses new ways of spicing up your class discussions by bringing some Socratic methods into the present. After a brief description of Paideia seminar and its history, she shares some great practical applications and ideas for changing up your groupings.

Paidia.org

Civiced.org

Dena Harshbarger, Ph.D. shares insights about getting students involved and engaged in the learning process.

Link to can see the Learning Pyramid that Dena talks about: https://www.educationcorner.com/the-learning-pyramid/

UDL (Universal Design for Learning) resources can be found at cast.org

This is our first "Flash POD" (like a flash mob, but more fun). These are shorter episodes (10-20 minutes) that will give you quick content and application ideas when you're short on time.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Altman helps us understand Self-Directed Learning and how it applies to teaching college students.

Link from the episode:

https://www.sdlglobal.com

Link from Megan for open-access resources so you can self-direct your own learning about SDL: https://books.aosis.co.za/index.php/ob/catalog/series/sdl

Dr. Carrie Kracl shares practical descriptions of behaviorism, constructivism, and cognitive learning theories that can help all of us consider how we are planning for learning in our classes.

Links to articles she mentions in the episode:

Kracl, C. L. & Harshbarger, D.K. (2017). Ask the Right Question: Using Literature and Higher Level Thinking Questions to Enhance Science Instruction. Science and Children, 54 (9), 78-82. www.nsta.org

Kracl, C.L. (2012). Review or true? Using Higher-level Thinking Questions in Social Studies Instruction. The Social Studies, 103(2), 57-60