Class Notes
Teaching Tourism through Community Voices
Recent news coverage of tourism worldwide has shown how prioritizing uncontrolled economic growth results in unsustainable visitor numbers in … Read More
Teaching Education Policy through Multiple Lenses
A section of my Sociology of Education course is devoted to primary and secondary education policy. We tackle one of … Read More
AI in the Classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming the current educational landscape, with students far outrunning faculty in their use of … 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
Teaching Tourism through Community Voices
Recent news coverage of tourism worldwide has shown how prioritizing uncontrolled economic growth results in unsustainable visitor numbers in … Read More
Teaching Education Policy through Multiple Lenses
A section of my Sociology of Education course is devoted to primary and secondary education policy. We tackle one of … Read More
AI in the Classroom
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are rapidly transforming the current educational landscape, with students far outrunning faculty in their use of … 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