September 22, 2021 The Stages of Team Development Professor Dan Kunich taught a class in the Landscape Architecture program. The class involved a team approach to the introduction to design principles. Students were engaged in a number of...
September 15, 2021 Creating a Collaborative Classroom Culture Dr. Hunter McHenry was reviewing the syllabus on the first day of class. After going over the standard components of the syllabus, he said, “I believe in the power of...
September 8, 2021 Continuous Improvement for Teaching Discussion Skills After his wife passed, Paul Washburn decided it was time for a career change. He left his law practice and now was starting out as an Assistant Professor in Political...
August 26, 2021 Just Imagine…A Thread that Stops Bullets Stephanie Kwolek was born to Polish immigrants to the US in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. Her father died when she was 10, but he left her with a career-long interest in...
August 11, 2021 Questions–and Critical Thinking in Discussions George Winston taught an upper-level economics course on current issues. The course had a major discussion component and today’s class was the first session with students in their small-group discussion...
July 22, 2021 Why Should You Care About Exploratory Discussion? By: Noah Miller We are all busy. Our busy lives pull us in every which way, forcing us to make decision after decision with little break in between. Oftentimes, it is...
July 21, 2021 Contradictions in Discussions Professor Dorothy Hamlin was concerned that her in-class discussions had become too superficial. Students were not exploring issues from different perspectives. Perhaps this should be expected since her university tended...
July 16, 2021 Could Technology Support & Enhance Our Democracy? A discussion summary for the third and final session of an online exploratory discussion series on Technology & Democracy In this third and final session of our small group conversation series...
July 7, 2021 Collaboration Agreements “Next class, we’ll be starting the first of our small-group discussions”, so began Dr. Sophia Newsome. “I know that many of you have had past experiences with group work that weren't...
