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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.
What's Needed for Institution-Wide Improvements in Undergraduate Science Teaching? with Marielena DeSanctis and Cassandra Volpe Horii
Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
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2 years ago
What's Needed for Institution-Wide Improvements in Undergraduate Science Teaching? with Marielena DeSanctis and Cassandra Volpe Horii
How can we improve teaching AND support all the instructors who teach science courses for undergraduates? Today we discuss this question with Marielena DeSanctis (https://www.ccd.edu/directory/dr-marielena-desanctis), President of the Community College of Denver, and Cassandra Volpe Horii (https://profiles.stanford.edu/cassandra-horii), Associate Vice Provost for Education and Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Stanford University, who are co-authors of the article titled, “An Instructional-Workforce Framework for Coordinated Change in Undergraduate Education (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00091383.2023.2151809)” (2023). Drs. DeSanctis and Volpe Horii discuss their framework—based on principles of justice, equity, and inclusion—which proposes treating all instructors (Visiting, Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Adjunct, Teaching Professor, TT/Tenured, Lecturer) as a unified workforce. Using the levers of governance, professional development, and reward systems, they offer institutions a path to significant improvement in the teaching of undergraduate science courses. Resource* “An Instructional-Workforce Framework for Coordinated Change in Undergraduate Education (https://ctl.columbia.edu/files/2023/10/An-Instructional-Workforce-Framework-for-Coordinated-Change-in-Undergraduate-Education-1.pdf)” (February 1, 2023) by Mark Lee, Cassandra Volpe Horii, Ann E. Austin, Leanne Avery, Marielena DeSanctis, Noah Finkelstein, Emily Miller & Barbara Schaal in Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning
Dead Ideas in Teaching and Learning
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.
