Education

Being Kind to Yourself in a Time of Uncertainty

Posted by admin on October 8, 2020

Pamela Stephens, Professor of Art Education and President’s Distinguished Teaching Fellow

As the global Covid-19 pandemic forced many of us to teach remotely, art educators willingly took action to provide exceptional learning experiences for their K-12 and post-secondary students. In a completely unplanned teaching and learning environment, art teachers quickly switched from traditional face-to-face classroom instruction to unfamiliar remote educational practices; practices that were largely unfamiliar to many. This abrupt pedagogical shift brought with it a variety of struggles.

Navigating mostly… Read more

Explore, Dream, Discover

Posted by admin on May 2, 2016

During the weeks before summer break, I am prone to contemplating how I will take a breather from the hectic pace of teaching. For me, summer is a time to gather my thoughts, reflect, and experience something new or out of the ordinary. It’s a time to travel and experience the world first hand.

How will you spend your valuable free time this summer?  I encourage you to consider using your break to travel someplace new to you. Whether your… Read more

Inspiring Interconnectedness

Posted by admin on April 3, 2016

When I was nineteen I felt as if every college course I was taking was part of some bigger class, that everything was interconnected and resonating with deeper meanings. What I studied in Introduction to Philosophy permeated my work in Expository Writing and influenced what I was seeing in Biology 101, Sociology 101, and The History of Western Civilization (this was 1985, after all). Higher education was an intricate web of intersections.

My life outside of the classroom—informally and through… Read more

Using Interprofessional Education In Your Multigenerational Classroom

Posted by admin on February 26, 2016

Understanding interprofessional education

In most university classrooms, instructors use a range of small and large group activities that require students to work collaboratively.  The assignments are prepared with the expectation that students work efficiently, effectively, and respectfully together. Because many of our classrooms are comprised of different generations of learners, including individuals with very diverse cultural backgrounds (i.e., age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, religion, etc.), this may be an unfair expectation to place on students. We intend to discuss… Read more