Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning

Dec 05 2024 58 ep. 31 mins 120
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Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning is a podcast from the Columbia University Center for Teaching and Learning. Our mission is to encourage instructors, students, and leaders in higher education to reflect on what they believe about teaching and learning.

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The Present Professor with Liz Norell

Dec 05 2024 21 mins  
In the introduction of Liz Norell (https://olemiss.edu/profiles/eanorell.php)’s new book, The Present Professor: Authenticity and Transformational Teaching (2024), she opens with two statements: “When you cannot be present, you cannot teach effectively” and “What’s good for students is good for us, too.” In this episode, Dr. Norell elaborates on these statements, and ex

How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students with Kristi Rudenga

Nov 14 2024 23 mins  
Kristi Rud (https://learning.nd.edu/about/team-bios/kristi-rudenga/)enga (https://learning.nd.edu/about/team-bios/kristi-rudenga/), author of The Chronicle of Higher Education article, “How to Rebuild a Broken Connection With Students (https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-rebuild-a-broken-connection-with-students)” (2024), writes that while intergenerational misunderstandin

Trust Moves in the Classroom with Peter Felten, Rachel Forsyth, and Kath Sutherland

Oct 31 2024 32 mins  
How can instructors build trust, community, and a sense of belonging with their students to ultimately improve student learning? In today’s episode, we tackle this question with Peter Felten (https://www.centerforengagedlearning.org/about-cel/center-staff/peter-felten/), Rachel Forsyth (https://portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/rachel-forsyth), and Kath Sutherland (https://people.

A Pedagogy of Kindness with Cate Denial

Oct 17 2024 23 mins  
Welcome to Season 9 of Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning! In this season, with our new host Columbia CTL Executive Director Amanda Irvin (https://ctl.columbia.edu/about/team/amanda-irvin/), we are exploring the dead idea that the world “outside” of the classroom doesn’t or shouldn’t influence the world “inside” the classroom—that students are exclusively intellectua

Passing the Baton: A New Chapter for Dead Ideas

May 02 2024 41 mins  
In today’s episode, we say a bittersweet goodbye to our wonderful podcast host, Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) Executive Director Catherine Ross (https://ctl.columbia.edu/about/team/catherine-ross/), as she will be retiring from Columbia in June. Catherine sits down with Amanda Irvin (https://ctl.columbia.edu/about/team/amanda-irvin/), Senior Director of Faculty

How to Help Adjuncts Not Want to Give Up with Kerry O’Grady

Apr 04 2024 29 mins  
In today’s episode we examine the systemic issues and dead ideas that underlie the hiring and supporting of contingent faculty. We speak with Kerry O’Grady (https://business.columbia.edu/staff/people/kerry-ogrady), Director for Teaching Excellence at the Samberg Institute for Teaching Excellence at Columbia Business School. Dr. O’Grady discusses some of the “normalized” p

Notes from the Field: Dead Ideas from Columbia CTL Educational Developers

Mar 07 2024 36 mins  
In this episode of 4 mini-interviews, we ask Columbia Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) staff John Foo, Jamie Kim, Rebecca Petitti, and Corey Ptak what’s been on their minds as they go about their work as educational developers. What dead ideas in teaching and learning are they encountering in their day-to-day work with instructors, in their reading and research? What are th

Why is There No Training on How to Teach Graduate Students? with Leonard Cassuto

Feb 22 2024 31 mins  
In this episode, we continue this season’s examination of graduate education, now looking into how institutions often overlook the need for preparing faculty to teach graduate students and graduate courses. We unpack the dead ideas that underlie this neglect with Leonard Cassuto (https://www.fordham.edu/academics/departments/english/faculty/leonard-cassuto/), professor of English

Teaching Development in Doctoral Education: Let’s Ask the Grad Students!

Feb 08 2024 30 mins  
In this episode, we continue the conversation from our last episode on the topic of teaching development in doctoral education—this time from the student perspective! With co-host Caitlin DeClercq, Senior Assistant Director of Graduate Student Programs and Services at the Columbia CTL, we are joined by Columbia doctoral students Anirbaan Banerjee, Sara Jane Samuel, and Anwesha Se

Teaching Development in Doctoral Education: Where, When, and How?

Jan 25 2024 36 mins  
Welcome back to Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning! In our first episode of Season 8, we speak with Drs. Benjamin Rifkin, Rebecca Natow, Nicholas Salter, and Shayla Shorter about their article in The Chronicle of Higher Education titled “Why Doctoral Programs Should Require Courses on Pedagogy (https://www.chronicle.com/article/why-doctoral-programs-should-require-courses-on-ped