How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable
<p>David Gooblar shares how better teaching can make college more equitable on episode 599 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.<br />
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<h2>Quotes from the episode</h2>
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<p>Most of our scars are hidden. I think most of the time people don’t see the scars that we carry.<br />
-David Gooblar</p>
<p>We get such a small window into our students lives.<br />
-David Gooblar</p>
<p>The imaginary idea of the college student in America is of a privileged student. And that’s just not the case when we talk about American college students today.<br />
-David Gooblar</p>
<p>We need to work to earn their trust, to convince our students that we’re working for them, that our job is to help them develop, learn, and grow.<br />
-David Gooblar</p>
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<h2>Resources</h2>
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<li><a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674297487">One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable, by David Gooblar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://pedagogyunbound.beehiiv.com/">Pedagogy Unbound: Weekly Thoughts on College Teaching from David Gooblar</a></li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotype_threat">Stereotype Threat</a></li>
<li><a href="https://hr.mit.edu/learning-topics/teams/articles/stages-development">Tuckman’s Stages of Team Formation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://teachinginhighered.com/585">Episode 585: Toward Socially Just Teaching with Bryan Dewsbury</a></li>
<li><a href="https://ed.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/the_mentors_dilemma.pdf">The Mentor’s Dilemma: Providing Critical Feedback Across the Racial Divide, by Geoffrey L. Cohen, Claude M. Steele, & Lee D. Ross</a></li>
<li><a href="https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html">Kagi Search</a></li>
<li><a href="https://mastodon.social/@bonni208/115471456738897486">Clip from Decoder Episode with Cory Doctorow on Mastodon</a></li>
<li><a href="https://overcast.fm/+AAQLdvPtZwI">The Verge: How Silicon Valley Enshittified the Internet with Cory Doctorow</a></li>
<li><a href="https://bookshop.org/a/79174/9781942884804">Adrienne Salinger: Teenagers in Their Bedrooms</a></li>
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