Talk About Teaching and Learning Archive
Volume 70 (Academic Year 2023-2024)
Just Change 10 Minutes by LeAnn Dourte: March 26, 2024
Introducing CETLI (Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Innovation) by Rebecca Stein and Bruce Lenthall: February 6, 2024
Viral Videos and Vaccines by Jennifer Punt: November 21, 2023
Controversial Topics in the Classroom: Insights from Teaching Russian Politics by Rudra Sil: October 31, 2023.
Thoughts on Teaching STEM With Less Sting by Tobias Baumgart: September 26, 2023.
Volume 69 (Academic Year 2022-2023)
Why Grade? Thinking Differently About How to Help Students Learn by Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher: April 25, 2023.
Silence, Risk, and Fun by Toni Bowers: March 28, 2023.
Encouraging Curiosity, Self-Directed Study and Belonging in Penn Students: The Directed Reading Program in Math by Mona Merling: February 28, 2023.
Confronting Perfectionism, Inspiring Excellence by M. Ruth Elliott: January 31, 2023.
Groupwork to Connect Basic Science and “Real-World” Application in a Professional Program by Stephen D. Cole: November 22, 2022
Giving Students Effective Feedback in a Large Introductory Class by Anne Duchene: October 25, 2022
Keeping Your Eyes Peeled by M. Susan Lindee: September 27, 2022
Homecoming: Returning to the Classroom After the Pandemic by Lena Hansen: August 30, 2022
Volume 68 (Academic Year 2021-2022)
Getting Students to Show Their Work by Meredith Tamminga: April 26, 2022
Building Confidence and Accommodating the Busy Student by Knashawn H. Morales: March 29, 2022
Teaching Critical Thinking, Clinical Reasoning, and Teamwork Using Online Discussion Boards in Canvas by Carlo Siracusa: February 22, 2022
Classroom Inclusivity: Lessons Learned and Strategies Moving Forward by Dalmacio Dennis Flores: January 25, 2022
Teaching with Objects by Whitney Trettien: November 23, 2021
Methods to Demystify Methods by Amrit Thapa: October 26, 2021
Opening Up to the Climate Emergency by Simon Richter: September 21, 2021
Volume 67 (Academic Year 2020-2021)
When Teaching Process and Content Align: COVID Silver Linings by John Paul MacDuffie: April 27, 2021
Teaching a Project-Based Class During a Pandemic by Deborah A. Thomas: March 30, 2021
Creating Community in the Zoomosphere by Lisa J. Servon: February 23, 2021
Teaching in Polarized Times by Roxanne L. Euben: January 26, 2021
Rebooting the Classroom: Knowledge, Skills, and Community in the Time of COVID-19 by Heather J. Sharkey: November 24, 2020
Making the Virtual Real by Megan Robb: October 27, 2020
Attention, Intentions, and Just Plain Tension by Phil Nelson: September 22, 2020
Volume 66 (Academic Year 2019-2020)
Grad Student Instructors’ Adjustments to Remote Teaching Due to COVID-19 by six TAs: May 5, 2020
Adjustments to Remote Teaching Due to COVID-19 by seven faculty members: April 14, 2020
Leveraging Digital Games in the Diversified Classroom by Marcus T. Wright: February 25, 2020
Mentoring Undergraduates in Research: Building Bonfires with Novices by Ivan Dmochowski: January 28, 2020
But Why Do I Have to Take This Class? Making Required Courses More Meaningful by Francesca Russello Ammon: November 19, 2019
Talking about Poverty, Class, Race and Other Challenging Issues by Roberta Rehner Iversen: October 29, 2019
Shifting Student Focus Away from Grades by Karen Detlefsen: September 24, 2019
Volume 65 (Academic Year 2018-2019)
Social Belonging in Introductory Calculus by Philip Gressman: April 23, 2019
Teaching Current Issue Through Timelines by Sibel Sayılı-Hurley and Claudia Baska Lynn: March 26, 2019
Coaching Students in Data Analysis by Francis J. DiTraglia: February 26, 2019
Managing Semester-Long Course Projects by Steve Zdancewic: January 29, 2019
Physics Teaching in the Community: A Case for Service-Based Learning by Kevin Chen: November 20, 2018
Teaching First-Generation College Students by Annette Lareau: October 23, 2018
Volume 64 (Academic Year 2017-2018)
Teaching Against Stereotype by Huda Fakhreddine: April 17, 2018
Engaging Students Using a Peer-Review Process by Pete Fader: March 27, 2018
A Social Justice Perspective on Teaching and Learning by Anne M. Teitelman: February 27, 2018
The Science of Learning by Allyson Mackey: January 23, 2018
Teaching Controversial Issues in the Age of Trump by Jonathan Zimmerman: November 21, 2017
Discussions in Introductory Qualitative Courses by Henry Towsner: October 24, 2017
Needs and Specifications: Building Effective Mentoring Relationships by Herman Beavers: September 26, 2017
Volume 63 (Academic Year 2016-2017)
From Awe to Activity: Pedagogies in Special Collections by John Pollack: April 25, 2017
License to Fail by Jim English: March 28, 2017
Mentor the Researcher, Not the Research: An Essay on PhD Mentoring by George J. Pappas: February 28, 2017
Teaching STEM at the Time of Political Distress by Zahra Fakhraai: January 24, 2017
Making a Lasting, Real Impact on Students by Jane Dmochowski: November 22, 2016
Understanding What Students Get Out of Your Class by LeAnn Dourte: October 25, 2016
Coding and Data Visualization in the Science Classroom by Philip Nelson: September 20, 2016
Volume 62 (Academic Year 2015-2016)
The Magic of the Encounter: Teaching and Learning in the Penn Museum by Anne Tiballi: April 26, 2016
The End of the Lecture? by Peter T. Struck: March 22, 2016
What do I have my students do in class and why? by Julia Lynch: February 23, 2016
Integrating Technology into My On-campus Course by Brian J. Bushee: January 26, 2016
Reducing Student Anonymity and Increasing Engagement by Katherine J. Kuchenbecker: November 24, 2015
Motivating Students with “Real Projects for Real Customers” by Christian Murphy: October 27, 2015
Teaching Introductory Classes by Mark Devlin: September 22, 2015
Volume 61 (Academic Year 2014-2015)
Activating Students’ Excitement by Masao Sako: April 28, 2015
Community-Based Approach to Teaching by Amy Hillier: March 31, 2015
Two Ideas for a Skeptical Pedagogy by Jeffrey Edward Green: February 24, 2015
Teaching the Familiar as Unfamiliar by Timothy Corrigan: January 27, 2015
Guiding Students from Individual Experiences to Group-Level Patterns: An Example Using Race and Ethnicity by Grace Kao: November 25, 2014
Can a Room Matter? Creating an Active Learning Environment for Teaching and Learning by Alain Plante: October 21, 2014
Keeping it Personal by Eileen Doherty-Sil: September 23, 2014
Volume 60 (Academic Year 2013-2014)
Socrates over Scholasticism? Strengthening Active In-Class Learning in Social Science Lecture by Rogers M. Smith: April 29, 2014
Teaching through Questions by Stanton Wortham: February 25, 2014
What I've Learned about Teaching from Other Faculty by Karen Detlefsen; January 28, 2014
Teaching Long: Reasons and Ways to Assign Big Books by Paul K. Saint-Amour; November 26, 2013
Balancing Passion By Cultivating Curiosity to Create Engagement by Sarah H. Kagan; October 29, 2013
Testing the Students' Knowledge of Process and Analysis by Kathleen M. Brown; September 17, 2013
Volume 59 (Academic Year 2012-2013)
Teaching Large Physics Courses: Challenges and Rewards by Mirjam Cvetic; March 19, 2013
Sharing a Discovery of Connection by Bruce Kothmann; February 19, 2013
Learning Technology by Lyle Ungar; January 22, 2013
Preparing Undergraduates to Work in the World by Andrew Dahlgren; November 20, 2012
Teaching with Facebook by Ralph Rosen; October 16, 2012
Obsession Is Infectious by Don Ringe; September 18, 2012
Volume 58 (Academic Year 2011-2012)
Teaching Students to Read: Teaching Students to Think by Barbra Mann Wall; March 20, 2012
Groups for Economic Applied Thinking (GREAT): a Collaborative Approach to Studying Microeconomics Principles by Rebecca Stein; November 22, 2011
The Final Research Paper: Practical Steps for Students as They Generate Ideas, Conduct Research, and Produce Publishable Work by Heather J. Sharkey; October 18, 2011
Making Abstract Ideas Experience-near by Greg Urban; September 20, 2011
Volume 57 (Academic Year 2010-2011)
The Pedagogical is Political (and Personal) by John L. Jackson, Jr.; April 12, 2011
On Advising Doctoral Theses by Margreta de Grazia; March 29, 2011
Teaching the Next Generation by Mark Devlin; February 15, 2011
Keeping the Classroom Relevant in a Rapidly Changing Field by Zachary Ives; January 18, 2011
Getting Students to Think About the Place Where They Are by Domenic Vitiello; November 16, 2010
Putting Students on the Hot Seat by Nicolaj Siggelkow; October 12, 2010
“The Frightful Things” On Domestication of a Complex and Unusual Material by Ilya Vinitsky; September 14, 2010
Volume 56 (Academic Year 2009-2010)
Training Doctoral Research: Not Training Technicians by Phyllis Solomon; April 20, 2010
The Elusive Art of Mentoring by Kathleen Hall; April 20, 2010
Collaborative Teaching/Participant Learning by Christine Poggi; March 23, 2010
Peer Instruction in Large Classes by Paul A. Heiney; February 16, 2010
Engaging Every Neuron in the Large Lecture Class by Connie Stanga; January 19, 2010
Failing upward: a Journey in Teaching by Emma E. Furth; November 24, 2009
Education for Generation Y by Mark Yim; October 20, 2009
Teaching in a Crisis by Mauro F. Guillen; September 15, 2009
Volume 55 (Academic Year 2008-2009)
Much Ado About Nothing–Or Something? Using Technology in Your Teaching by Zachary Lesser; September 9, 2008
'Mind the Gap': Teaching Medieval Music in the 21st Century by Emma Dillon; September 30, 2008
Teaching Your Field to Non-Specialists: Why Hard Stuff Matters by Gary Bernstein; November 4, 2008
Teaching Without Borders by Jonathan D. Moreno; January 20, 2009
Preparing to Launch: Stage One in Mentoring Undergraduate Research by Rogers M. Smith; February 17, 2009
The Kick is in Finding Out Stuff about Stuff and Sharing it with Others by Philip A. Rea; March 24, 2009
Volume 54 (Academic Year 2007-2008)
Connecting Students with the Unfamiliar by David Wallace; September 18, 2007
Struggles and Questions from an Experienced Teacher by Lawrence Sipe; October 23, 2007
Relevancy, Organization and Passion in Teaching by Thomas A.V. Cassel; November 20, 2007
Talk Talk: Using On-Line Discussions to Promote Student Conversations by Catriona MacLeod; January 22, 2008
This is What Education is Supposed to Be About by Ruth Schwartz Cowan; March 18, 2008
That Which is Observed Changes the Observer by Paul Sniegowski; February 5, 2008
Volume 53 (Academic Year 2006-2007)
Explicit Instruction and Implicit Message by Sharon Thompson-Schill; September 12, 2006
Building Block of Information by Thomas Sollecito; September 12, 2006
The CTL Teaching Certificate and Conversations about Teaching by Bruce Lenthall; October 17, 2006
Conjugating Diversity by Herman Beavers; November 14, 2006
Learning to Teach in the 21st Century by Peter Struck; February 20, 2007
Hey prof: RU Busy I have a ? by Andrew M. Rappe; March 20, 2007
Reclaiming the Democratic Purposes of American Higher Education by Matthew Hartley; April 17, 2007
Volume 52 (Academic Year 2005-2006)
The Fog of Learning and Teaching by Rita Barnard; September 13, 2005
Teaching “What Can’t Be Taught” by Paul N. Lanken; September 13, 2005
The Messages We Send by Sarah Manekin; October 11, 2005
What can Penn Learn From our Nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)? by Marybeth Gasman; November 8, 2005
Teaching and Learning—About Evolution by Paul Sniegowski; December 6, 2005
How Can I Help? by Dennis DeTurck; January 10, 2006
UScandia and Hibritannia by Brendan O’Leary; February 2, 2006
The Education Gospel: Loud Music, The Lone Ranger, Playing Within Your Game, And It’s Hard To Learn When You’re Hungry by Marvin Lazerson; March 14, 2006
Deep Learning: Problem Solving Learning and Intellectual Development During the College Years by Christine Massey; April 25, 2006
Volume 51 (Academic Year 2004-2005)
An Unexpected Discovery by Vicki Mahaffey; September 14, 2004
Some Preliminary Findings from the Blackboard Study by John Noakes, John MacDermott, Elizabeth Scheyder and Jay Treat; October 12, 2004
Reflections on ITA Language Training, English Fluency Certification, and Beyond by Thomas W. Adams; November 9, 2004
Improving Learning at Universities: Who is Responsible? by J. Scott Armstrong; December 14, 2004
Motivating and Managing Large Classes by Rebecca Stein; February 15, 2005
Volume 50 (Academic Year 2003-2004)
Centering on Learning at Penn by Myrna L. Cohen, Matthew Grady, and Samantha Springer; October 21, 2003
Communication Within the Curriculum by Ralph M. Rosen; November 11, 2003
Healthy in Philadelphia Initiative by Eileen M. Sullivan-Marx; November 18, 2003
Through the Shadow of the Valley: How to Retain Attention in the Classroom by Larry M. Robbins; December 9, 2003
Using Instructional Technology to Facilitate Active Learning by David Rousseau and Christina Frei with John Noakes; February 17, 2004
Teaching Communication by Michael X. Delli Carpini; March 30, 2004
Teaching Film by Timothy Corrigan; April 20, 2004
Volume 47 (Academic Year 2000-2001)
Facing Reality by Larry Hunter; September 19, 2000
Introduce Yourself by Philip M. Nichols; December 12, 2000
Inquiring Into the Teaching and Learning of Science: An Initiative from a Research University by Connie Blasie, Cath Milne and Hai-Lung Dai; January 23, 2001
Some Thoughts on Teaching and Academic Integrity by Ellen Kennedy; March 27, 2001
A Community of Learners by Art Casciato; April 17, 2001
Volume 46 (Academic Year 1999-2000)
Speaking Across the University--and in the Classroom by Jeremy McInerney, October 19, 1999
What I Wouldn't Do For Enrollment by Simon Richter, November 16, 1999
What to Look For by Larry Robbins, January 18, 2000
Teaching with New Tools by Peshe Kuriloff, February 15, 2000
Venturing into the World of Distributed Learning by Cristle Collins Judd, March 28, 2000
Shall We Dance? Team Teaching & the Harmony of Collaboration by Herman Beavers and Dennis DeTurck, April 25, 2000
Volume 45 (Academic Year 1998-1999)
Teaching Quantitative Skills: How Some Faculty Have Responded by Jonathan Baron, October 20, 1998
Teaching and Learning the Unfamiliar by Marvin Lazerson and Ursula Wagener, November 17, 1998
Managing Our Classrooms and Ourselves by Michael Useem, December 8, 1998
Speaking Across the University by Joseph Farrell, January 19, 1999
Learning the Library, Teaching the Library by Stephen Lehmann, March 23, 1999
Is This Any Way to Go About Teaching and Learning? by Larry M. Robbins, April 20, 1999
Volume 44 (Academic Year 1997-1998)
Live and Learn by David B. Brownlee, September 16,1997
Languages Across the Curriculum and Around the World by Roger Allen, October 21, 1997
Participant-Observation in the Washington Semester by Russell Riley and Jack Nagel, November 18, 1997
Learning in Style by Myrna L. Cohen, December 9, 1997
It's About Time by Larry D. Gladney, February 17, 1998
Promoting Undergraduate Research at Penn by Lawrence B. Friedman, March 24, 1998
Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century by Richard R. Beeman, April 28, 1998
Volume 43 (Academic Year 1996-1997)
Using Quality Circles to Master the Classroom by Michael Useem, September 24, 1996
We Are All Teachers; We Are All Learners by Drew Gilpin Faust, October 22, 1996
Electronic Advising: The Scholars Have Come by David Williams, November 19/26, 1996
Where Does the TA Fit In? by Stephen D. Winick, December 3, 1996
Notes Toward a Culture of Writing by Al Filreis, January 21, 1997
Teaching Teachers at Penn: Mentoring Programs by Larry Robbins and Herb Levine, February 18, 1997
TA Training in the Math Department by Herman Gluck, March 25, 1997
Volume 42 (Academic Year 1995-1996)
A Teaching Strategy to Increase Student Understanding of Fundamental Concepts by Ingrid Waldron, September 12, 1995
A Vision of the Classroom by Kyle Vanderlick, October 24, 1995
In Celebration of Advision by Susan Gennaro, Marian Matez, Kathy McCauley and Susan Schwartz, November 21/28, 1995
Teaching in the Constitutional University by Will Harris, December 12, 1995
Prayer vs Action: Heeding the Coach by Jacob M. Abel, January 23, 1996
"Why Buy the Cow When You Can Get the Milk for Free?" by Susan Cotts Watkins, February 20, 1996
Actively Open-minded Thinking by Jonathan Baron, March 19, 1996
The University in Microcosm: Benjamin Franklin Scholars by Will Harris, April 23, 1996
Volume 41 (Academic Year 1994-1995)
Taking Teaching Seriously by Stanley Chodorow, Provost, October 11, 1994
"z=(x2+2y2)e-x2-y2" [Math Literacy] by Dennis DeTurck, November 8, 1994
Undergraduate Research Experience by Robert Rescorla, December 6, 1994
Teaching Outside the Box: A Residential Frontier for Pedagogy by Christopher Dennis, January 17, 1995
Making the Right Things Happen: Research and the Undergraduate Nursing Student by Linda P. Brown and Lorraine J. Tulman, February 7, 1995
Technology in Teaching by C.J. McMahon, March 21, 1995
How the Undergraduate Core Could Be Run at Wharton by W. Bruce Allen, April 11, 1995
Classical Studies in the Community by Ralph Rosen, May 2, 1995