Connections
Looking for a way to address barriers to statistical literacy and help students reach their statistical potential? This piece offers a psychosocial approach to teaching statistics to promote deeper learning.
Lessons from the pandemic: when students feel supported and connected, learning happens. See Senter’s Teaching Sociology article for convincing evidence.
See this Teaching TSP post on podcasting as an alternative to in-class lectures!
It’s no secret that community-engaged learning boosts students awareness and sociological imagination. See Christensen’s piece for examples of how to implement CEL in your own classroom, as well as strategies for assessment.
Looking for more ways to center your students? Check out this piece from Schall on letting go of power and making students co-contributers in the classroom.
Struggling to engage Gen Z students? This paper discusses using “Renewable Assignments” to meet the needs of younger students through active learning, collaboration, and fostering independence.
Are you looking for a new classroom activity to engage students? Angela Adkins (2023) suggests using open-ended, non-directive vignettes to promote the discussion of sociological theory and address systemic issues and social justice.
See Odum and Kordsmeier’s discussion about the impact teaching sociology in “unprecedented times” can have on students. While various difficulties may arise while teaching during crises, this article gives teachers ideas to craft their pedagogy for an engaged future.
Looking to summarize to students recent discussions on eviction and gentrification? Hepburn, Louis & Desmond (2024) look at six million court cases filed in 72 cities in the US and find that eviction is a durable component of neighborhood disadvantage.
Blog post assignments can help students experiment with writing sociologically. Find out how Ruth M. Hernández-Ríos has used blogs to teach students to analyze complex theories about gender and sex while also improving their writing in this The Society Pages post from 2019.
Looking for a way to address barriers to statistical literacy and help students reach their statistical potential? This piece offers a psychosocial approach to teaching statistics to promote deeper learning.
Lessons from the pandemic: when students feel supported and connected, learning happens. See Senter’s Teaching Sociology article for convincing evidence.
See this Teaching TSP post on podcasting as an alternative to in-class lectures!
It’s no secret that community-engaged learning boosts students awareness and sociological imagination. See Christensen’s piece for examples of how to implement CEL in your own classroom, as well as strategies for assessment.
Looking for more ways to center your students? Check out this piece from Schall on letting go of power and making students co-contributers in the classroom.
Struggling to engage Gen Z students? This paper discusses using “Renewable Assignments” to meet the needs of younger students through active learning, collaboration, and fostering independence.
Are you looking for a new classroom activity to engage students? Angela Adkins (2023) suggests using open-ended, non-directive vignettes to promote the discussion of sociological theory and address systemic issues and social justice.
See Odum and Kordsmeier’s discussion about the impact teaching sociology in “unprecedented times” can have on students. While various difficulties may arise while teaching during crises, this article gives teachers ideas to craft their pedagogy for an engaged future.
Looking to summarize to students recent discussions on eviction and gentrification? Hepburn, Louis & Desmond (2024) look at six million court cases filed in 72 cities in the US and find that eviction is a durable component of neighborhood disadvantage.
Blog post assignments can help students experiment with writing sociologically. Find out how Ruth M. Hernández-Ríos has used blogs to teach students to analyze complex theories about gender and sex while also improving their writing in this The Society Pages post from 2019.