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What Do You Love About Teaching? (I bet it’s not grading.)

By John Beaumont on November 19, 2021 10

Ultimately, I want students to walk away from my class having had a positive experience in which they have learned things that stick with them on some level. My experimentation with ungrading is helping me and the students I teach shift our thinking away from grading toward learning.

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Inspiring Creativity in a Remote Learning Environment

By Mindi Reich-Shapiro and Kristin Scarola on October 7, 2021 2

In our early childhood curriculum classes, pre-service teachers engage in collaborative hands-on learning experiences with dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. Our classroom is stocked with materials to inspire creativity and exploration. How to translate that to a remote learning environment?

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Engaging Students Across Disciplines in Makerspace Activities (Part 2)

By Kar Rosen on May 7, 2021 0

In the first insallment of this blog post, we introduced the Makerspace community and showcased the ways in which students and faculty have been using the BMCC Makerspace. In this second installment, we introduce the online BMCC Makerspace resources and highlight some activities that can be done at home using commonly available materials.

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Engaging Students Across Disciplines in Makerspace Activities (Part 1)

By Kar Rosen on May 3, 2021 0

Did you know that BMCC has a Makerspace available to all faculty and students? A Makerspace is a place meant to encourage people to create, experiment, and develop ideas. Makerspaces are part research lab, part classroom, part studio, and provide tools and lessons on how to use them. Read on to find out how this space can be used in classes across disciplines.

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Making Zoom a More Collaborative Place

By Margaret Carson on March 19, 2021 13

Like most faculty at BMCC, I was a newbie to synchronous online teaching when classes suddenly went remote last March and had little idea how to “Zoomify” my Spanish classes. Thanks to the hive mind of the Internet, YouTube, and my BMCC colleagues, I’ve learned a few ways to push back against the virtual “wall” of Zoom so that more student-to-student exchanges can occur.

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Course Tour: Christina Neubrand’s SPE 100

By Christina Neubrand on March 8, 2021 0

In this video tour of her class, Christina talks about how she builds community and helps students be successful in a completely asynchronous class taught in Blackboard and the OpenLab.

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Course Tour: Tim Leonard’s ACR 200

By Tim Leonard on February 26, 2021 0

In this video tour of his class, Tim talks about how he stays connected with students and builds community using tools such as Remind, Google Docs, Perusall, and Loom.

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What Would You Do, Professor? Teaching about the COVID Vaccine

By Yuliya Shneyderman on January 22, 2021 4

Teaching about vaccines and COVID19 is not just biology. I believe it is our responsibility to provide students with accurate information, and to add context relevant to the courses we teach. Most disciplines can add to the conversation around the pandemic and vaccines and provide much-needed context to students.

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Light Emerges from Our Darkened Screens

By Maria Alvarez on December 4, 2020 0

Teaching is a lonely experience in this COVID reality and it is equally challenging for students. But give freshman 101 students a real-life writing assignment with facts and history and their voices sound in the main room and breakout rooms of live sessions.

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Seeing Myself in my Students

By Catherine Mbewe on November 20, 2020 18

I firmly believe that if an instructor is self-aware and takes the time to reflect on how to practice compassion, the act of being present for students may encourage the student to keep on trying rather than giving up. How you show up for your students makes all the difference.

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Archive | Teaching and Learning

What Do You Love About Teaching? (I bet it’s not grading.)

Inspiring Creativity in a Remote Learning Environment

Engaging Students Across Disciplines in Makerspace Activities (Part 2)

Engaging Students Across Disciplines in Makerspace Activities (Part 1)

Making Zoom a More Collaborative Place

Course Tour: Christina Neubrand’s SPE 100

Course Tour: Tim Leonard’s ACR 200

What Would You Do, Professor? Teaching about the COVID Vaccine

Light Emerges from Our Darkened Screens

Seeing Myself in my Students

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