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Blog, Praxis: The Responsive & Expanding Classroom

How Can We Nudge Our Students in Better Directions?

June 15, 2022

When my first-year students write bad papers, I assume they are bad writers. If they don’t revise, I assume they don’t want to do it. If they don’t pay attention, I assume they don’t care about my course. Again and…

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Blog, Praxis: The Responsive & Expanding Classroom

Lessons From the Pandemic: How Do We Recognize and Honor Our Limits?

April 13, 2022

Teaching through pandemic brought home two basic lessons to me: What happens in our students’ lives affects their performance in the classroom. Professors are mere human beings who can only do so much before our health suffers. Both seem obvious….

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Why Students Are Afraid of Arguments and What We Might Do About It

March 16, 2022

I’ve been increasingly frustrated with my first-year students’ reluctance to argue with each other. Several years ago, I started asking my classes where these sentences change from being OK to not OK: I agree with Peter. I want to add…

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How Do We Teach Catholic Intellectual Tradition to Gen Z Students?

February 7, 2022

I avoided teaching our gen ed Catholic intellectual tradition courses for years at my small Catholic college in the Northeast. I’m not a theologian. I’m not Catholic. And teaching these courses sounded challenging because our students’ impressions of the Church…

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Social Justice and Civic Engagement

Race in the Classroom #3: Bringing in Race in a Catholic Intellectual Tradition Course

January 10, 2022

Having practiced on my first-year students for a few years [Race in the Classroom #1   Race in the Classroom #2], I felt brave enough to add several readings on race at once to my junior level course, Is God Dead?…

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Social Justice and Civic Engagement

Race in the Classroom #2: How To Create a Reasonably Safe Classroom in Which Our Students Can Talk Honestly About Race

December 13, 2021

Talking about race in the classroom makes me nervous. What if a white student says something awful and I don’t know how to handle it? What if I don’t know the facts? What if something blows up and I end…

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Social Justice and Civic Engagement

Race in the Classroom #1: How To Build a Diverse Course Syllabus When You Don’t Know Enough About Race and Diversity

November 8, 2021

I’m teaching about race more and more these days. That wasn’t my plan. My training is in ancient Greek philosophy and I used to love teaching Aristotle and Plato. But things changed. Ten years ago, the ancient thinkers were great…

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Praxis: The Responsive & Expanding Classroom

How to Spend Less Time Grading: Write Less and Make Each Word Count

April 21, 2021

One of our most time-consuming and dreaded tasks as humanities faculty is grading student papers. We’re making it worse by writing too many comments. Some of my colleagues correct every single grammatical error. Others fill the margins with thoughtful suggestions,…

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Online Teaching, Online Learning

The crummiest semester ever?  A survival guide for spring 2021

March 19, 2021

I have a feeling that this is going to be the crummiest semester of my teaching career.  We’re tired here at my small undergraduate Catholic college outside of Boston.  I’ve toggled back and forth between classes on Zoom and in…

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Online Teaching, Online Learning

Should We Require Students to Turn Their Cameras On in the Zoom Classroom?

August 20, 2020

When our courses went online in the spring, many of our students kept their cameras turned off in class. It was eerie. When my students wouldn’t say anything, I felt like I was speaking into a void, and my imagination…

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