Class Notes
Making Adopted Activities Work for You
Active learning is a growing trend in higher education for enhancing student engagement, but activities can take a lot … Read More
Voter Education in the Classroom
Having seen how many students are unaware of how to register to vote, the mechanics of voting, and why voting … Read More
Community-Engaged Learning as a Triple Win
For tenure track faculty with research intensive roles, balancing research and teaching can be difficult. Meanwhile, students are eager to … Read More
Teaching the Hidden Curriculum
When I first started teaching, in the Fall of 2022, I was surprised by how often things that seemed obvious … Read More
Calling Elected Officials
Sociology courses frequently focus on helping students understand the severity of our social problems. We can do even better by … Read More
Crafting Effective Feedback
One of the main tasks we have as instructors and teaching assistants is reading students’ writing and assisting them in … Read More
Pop Culture Fridays
My first semester of teaching Introductory Sociology was to a class of 120 students, and I had just completed my … Read More
Small-Scale CBL: Establishing Trust and Equity in Benefits
In a classic piece on community-based learning (CBL) in sociology, Mooney and Edwards define CBL as a broad term … Read More
Rethinking Service-learning to be More Public and Creative
In higher education, instructors are encouraged to incorporate service-learning into their curricula— activities that provide the chance for students to … Read More
Ungrading: Reassessing Assessment
According to Jesse Stommel (2021), “’Ungrading’ means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply … Read More
Making Adopted Activities Work for You
Active learning is a growing trend in higher education for enhancing student engagement, but activities can take a lot … Read More
Voter Education in the Classroom
Having seen how many students are unaware of how to register to vote, the mechanics of voting, and why voting … Read More
Community-Engaged Learning as a Triple Win
For tenure track faculty with research intensive roles, balancing research and teaching can be difficult. Meanwhile, students are eager to … Read More
Teaching the Hidden Curriculum
When I first started teaching, in the Fall of 2022, I was surprised by how often things that seemed obvious … Read More
Calling Elected Officials
Sociology courses frequently focus on helping students understand the severity of our social problems. We can do even better by … Read More
Crafting Effective Feedback
One of the main tasks we have as instructors and teaching assistants is reading students’ writing and assisting them in … Read More
Pop Culture Fridays
My first semester of teaching Introductory Sociology was to a class of 120 students, and I had just completed my … Read More
Small-Scale CBL: Establishing Trust and Equity in Benefits
In a classic piece on community-based learning (CBL) in sociology, Mooney and Edwards define CBL as a broad term … Read More
Rethinking Service-learning to be More Public and Creative
In higher education, instructors are encouraged to incorporate service-learning into their curricula— activities that provide the chance for students to … Read More
Ungrading: Reassessing Assessment
According to Jesse Stommel (2021), “’Ungrading’ means raising an eyebrow at grades as a systemic practice, distinct from simply … Read More