I’m so excited that my graduate Pedagogy &
Communication at University of North Texas will be returning this fall to our blogging
project. After taking a few years off I decided to jump back into blogging as
part of our discussion process.
The course and our blog will be organized into three units.
- Unit 1: A Crash Course in Teaching focuses on practical advice on teaching covering topics from classroom management to instructional strategies that foster student engagement.
- Unit 2: Educational Philosophy & Critical Pedagogy explores various philosophical perspectives about pedagogy. We will explore the works of Dewey, Freire, Fish, Palmer, and hooks. Each author provides insight into the complex considerations, which shape our roles, responsibilities, and objectives as educators.
- Unit 3: Communication Studies Research & Pedagogy explores the intersection of Communication Education, Instructional Communication, Educational Philosophy, and Critical Theory by exploring the way in which we as instructors-students understand and create our relational selves in collusion and collision with theories and methodologies that explore identity as a socio-cultural creation that are inherently ideological.
Please feel free to join us on our journey as we
explore the Pedagogy with a group of new instructors.
Please
join us for our first unit: A Crash Course in Teaching
Week 1 (Aug 25th): Best Practices in
Teaching with class readings from Daly, Friedrich & Vangelisti’s “Teaching
Communication: Theory, research, and methods”
Week 2 (Sept. 1st): Deanna Dannels’ “8
Essential Questions Teachers Ask”
Week 3 (Sept. 8th): Instructional
Strategies with readings from Barkley’s “Student Engagement Techniques”;
Fassett & Warren’s Sage handbook chapter on Service Learning; and selected
chapters from “McKeiachie’s Teaching Tips”.
Week 4 (Sept. 15th): Blended Learning where
we tackle hybrid teaching with Garrison & Vaughan’s “Blended Learning in
Higher Education.
