Keystone Concepts in Teaching: A Higher Education Podcast from the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning

Dec 04 2024 10 ep. 21 mins 2
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Keystone Concepts in Teaching is a higher education podcast from the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning at George Mason University focused on discussing and sharing impactful teaching strategies that support all students and faculty.

Join us as we feature conversations with experienced educators who discuss actionable, impactful, and evidence-based teaching strategies that may be applied across disciplines and instructional modalities. This podcast aims to support faculty professional development by providing access to broadly inclusive teaching strategies, supporting faculty of all appointment types and across all fields by discussing the keystone concepts of teaching and learning.

Subscribe now to the Keystone Concepts in Teaching and Learning podcast on your favorite podcast platform to get notifications of new episodes as we explore teaching and learning small change strategies that you might even wish to try out in your course yet this semester!

Hosted by: Rachel Yoho, CDP, PhD
Produced by: Kelly Chandler, MA

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S1 E9: Syllabi Supporting Learners and Instructors

Dec 04 2024 23 mins  
Join our guest host, Kelly Chandler, as she talks with Dr. Rachel Yoho about how we can make our syllabi more inclusive of all learners and us as the instructor in the first of our “Hear From Your Host” series. Resources: Eberly, M. B., Newton, S. E., & Wiggins, R. A. (2001). The syllabus as a tool for student-centered learning. The Journal of General Education, 50(1), 56�

S1 E8: Writing About Challenging Topics

Nov 13 2024 25 mins  
Drs. Richard Craig, LaNitra Berger, and Courtney Massie join your host, Dr. Rachel Yoho, to discuss how we productively have conversations, facilitate student writing, and grade when centered around potentially challenging topics. Resources: Office of Faculty Affairs and Development: https://provost.gmu.edu/about/administrative-units/faculty-affairs-and-development (Contact this of

S1 E7: Strategies for Teaching Multilingual Students

Oct 30 2024 19 mins  
Shelby Broberg and Dr. Idée Edalatishams join your host, Dr. Rachel Yoho, for a conversation on how we can support multilingual learners, including assignment design, assessment, and more! We explore actionable strategies for education that support all students, both multilingual and not, across disciplines. Resources: George Mason University Writing Center: https://writingcenter.

S1 E6: What Do We Do About Artificial Intelligence Technologies in the Classroom?

Oct 16 2024 21 mins  
Dr. Laina Lockett, the STEM Education Specialist in the Stearns Center for Teaching and Learning, joins us to talk about the “big thing” right now in education: artificial intelligence-based text generators. We explore actionable strategies for continuing impactful and engaging teaching in this new educational context. Resources: Your host, Dr. Rachel Yoho’s, publication on i

S1 E5: What Core Courses Teach Us About Teaching

Oct 02 2024 16 mins  
Dr. Laura Poms, Director of the Mason Core at George Mason University, joins us to explore what Core courses can teach us about teaching. We discuss content relevant to instructors who are – and are not – teaching in the undergraduate core curriculum program.Resources: Mason Core Website: https://masoncore.gmu.edu/, Mason Core Categories: https://masoncore.gmu.edu/mason-core-co

S1 E4: Using Design Elements and Feedback in Your Course

Sep 18 2024 30 mins  
Dr. Crystal Anderson returns to discuss the practical aspects of course design, transparency, and productively using feedback in our course. This relates to our overall intentionality about how we approach teaching to support all students’ learning. We also talk about how to approach teaching if you are handed a pre-made syllabus. For more information about student evaluations: E

S1 E3: Fundamentals of Teaching for All Students

Sep 04 2024 24 mins  
We welcome Dr. Crystal Anderson for a conversation about what teaching looks like today, particularly coming off several years of pandemic teaching. We also explore how we engage students across different modalities, whether face-to-face, hybrid, online, or others.Stearns Center Teaching Online: https://stearnscenter.gmu.edu/knowledge-center/online-teaching/Check out our website!

S1 E2: Teaching for Everyone

Aug 21 2024 27 mins  
Dr. Shelley Reid returns for a follow-up conversation about how we create a classroom that supports all students – and the instructors – to create an environment of educational success through policies, procedures, assessment, and more. Reality, equity, equality, and justice figure: https://www.bu.edu/diversity/resource-toolkit/inequity-equality-equity-and-justice/ Stearns Cent

S1 E1: Building Strategies That Include All Learners

Aug 07 2024 25 mins  
Join us as Dr. Shelley Reid discusses how good teaching is focused on learning, rather than just delivering content, in a way that supports and includes all students. Resources: Think-Pair-Share and other active learning strategies, Concentric circles of diversity Check out our website!

Keystone Concepts in Teaching Introduction

Aug 07 2024 1 mins  
Listen to our podcast introduction to learn more about Keystone Concepts in Teaching!Check out our website!