New to #criticalreflection? Start with this overview of Brookfield’s 4 lenses & think through reflection prompts to guide your uncovering of which lens feels most comfortable, and which is most challenging
@academicchatter @phdlife @edutooters
#highered #reflection #pedagogy #facultydevelopment #Education https://open.substack.com/pub/higheredpraxis/p/week-5-looking-through-multiple-lenses?r=4j50q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

After a busy semester, I’m looking forward to slowing down & thinking intentionally about teaching. Next week, I launch a summer series on critically reflective practice - join me for weekly posts w/resources & a short reflection activity! #highered #facultydevelopment #teaching #criticalreflection #academicchatter @academicchatter https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/summer-2025-series-on-crafting-a

🤩 Article just published w/#ncte #TETYC "Reducing Stress through Agency and Autonomy: #CommunityCollege #Student Perspectives on Labor-Based Contract Grading"
#highered #fyc #LBCG https://doi.org/10.58680/tetyc202452121

#FridayFragments #whatimreading this week:
📚2 opposing viewpoints re #GenAI and #students
📚3 articles re:impacts
layoffs on #highered from #chronicleofhighereducation and
@snopes https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/friday-fragments-march-21st

Reflecting on 5 years of pandemic/"post"-pandemic teaching...and still working on how to make #online discussions feel engaging and worthwhile! Here are my top three challenges facilitating online discussions - what are yours? #teachingonline #highered #onlineteaching
https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-where-do-online-discussions-go

I find that the work of #teaching expands to fill whatever available time you give it - there's always a class plan to revise, a lecture to tweak, a student to talk to, a quiz to grade...so while I have some tried-and-true time management strategies I've found useful, I would really love to learn what you all have done to make the semester feel more manageable?
What #timemanagement hacks work for you? #highereducation @academicchatter https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/5-staying-organized-and-managing

Taking a 15-week course and delivering it in a shortened summer semester?
🚫cut content willy-nilly
🚫upload hours of async course lectures
How do you approach the transformation?
https://higheredpraxis.substack.com/p/tip-summertime-madness
#highereducation #coursedesign #coursedelivery #students

Amidst the end-of-semester crunch, here are 2 strategies to help us balance our scholarly work and service commitments against our teaching work - and, more importantly, engage in some deep thinking about how we are spending our time and whether this allocation reflects what we value.
#highereducation #Productivity #teaching
https://open.substack.com/pub/higheredpraxis/p/tip-juggling-teaching-service-and