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Teaching Stories
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Beyond the Discussion Board: Teaching Students to Navigate Difficult Conversations
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ByCassidy Allen
How do we equip students to have difficult conversations amid political polarization? Dr. Candace King, part-time faculty in the Woods College, developed an innovative seminar series, “Violence in America,” in which she both models these communication skills and provides students with the opportunity to develop them on their own.
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Showing Your Hand: Using the Playing Card Method to Improve the Quality of Peer Feedback
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ByCassidy Allen
Erin Sheehy explains how CDIL’s working group for peer feedback helped spark new ideas in the classroom.
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Beyond the Research Paper: Preparing Graduate Students to Communicate Outside the Academy
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ByCassidy Allen
Dr. Tina Klein discusses assessment options beyond the traditional research paper.
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Scaffolding Success: Using NotebookLM to Support Learning in Political Science
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ByEllie Lange
How NotebookLM can help students build the foundational background knowledge required to engage with dense scholarly articles and critically apply political science concepts.
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Fish, Factories, Futures: US History and the Neponset
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ByCDIL
How Professor Conevery Valencius (History, MCAS) introduces students to what humanists can do outside the academy.
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The Power of Reflection in Nursing Synthesis Clinical Laboratory
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ByCDIL
How Beth McNutt-Clarke, Associate Professor of the Practice, CSON redesigned her capstone course to support students’ development into compassionate nursing professionals.
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Reimagining Reflection in the Sociology of Health and Illness
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ByCDIL
How Associate Professor Joshua Seim (Sociology, MCAS) prompted students to build connective tissue between his course’s content and their future careers
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A “Safe Space of Collaboration”: Developing the M.A. in Ministerial Leadership
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ByEllie Lange
CDIL chats with Brenda Noriega-Flores, PhD, program director of the M.A. in Ministerial Leadership at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry, about developing this groundbreaking new program in collaboration with CDIL.
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The Power of Collaboration: Building Community with Feedback Fruits
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ByEllie Lange
Professor Marty Whalen explains how the collaborative process of integrating Feedback Fruits in her asynchronous course will build community among students.
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Circling Back to the Discussion Board
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ByCassidy Allen
Jeannine Robbins-Murphy describes how CDIL’s working group helped expand her knowledge of teaching tools.