Cultivating Hope and Action Beyond Grades

Josh Eyler helps us cultivate hope and action beyond grades on episode 534 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode


Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting.
-Josh Eyler

We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to really dig in and find ways that the content becomes meaningful to who they are as people.
-Josh Eyler

We're in another period of significant grading reform right now, fueled, I believe, by mass communication and social media. People are now able to connect in ways that in previous eras of grading reform, they were not able to.
-Josh Eyler


Resources

Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It, by Josh Eyler
How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler
Kariann Fuqua
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
Moonwalking with Einstein : The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer
Self determination theory
Reconceptualizing Participation Grading as Skill Building, by Alanna Gillis
University of Virginia: Michael Palmer
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
Premortums
Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, by Kevin Gannon
How to Podcast: How to help a Loved One with Dementia
Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It, by Josh Eyler
Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, Bettina L. Love
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, by Jarvis R. Givens
Indigenous Educational Practices
Matt Townsley