{"id":86,"date":"2019-08-19T02:44:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2019-08-19T02:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T20:44:48","slug":"my-teaching-philosophy-in-a-nutshell","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/my-teaching-philosophy-in-a-nutshell\/","title":{"rendered":"My Teaching Philosophy in a Nutshell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, no neat, tidy statement here, as this is a work in progress.<\/p>\n<p>Considering taking a class with me? Here are some commitments that drive my pedagogy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I come to teaching as a feminist. This means I\u2019m interested in dismantling hierarchies that position students as \u201cless than\u201d in the classroom. Students and I work together as colleagues to make meaning, and I depend on them to teach me how to engage them. One strategy I use toward this end is a modification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ascd.org\/publications\/educational-leadership\/sept16\/vol74\/num01\/Seven-Cs-for-Effective-Teaching.aspx\">Chris Emdin\u2019s cogen<\/a>, in which a few students stay after each class to chat with me about what I need to know for the next class.<\/li>\n<li>The \u201csemester\u201d is a social construct. The timeframe I give for completing assignments may not work for everyone, so I have built into my teaching a few ways for students to have flexibility with deadlines and how long it takes them to grasp concepts. For example, late tickets can be used to extend deadlines, and Revise &amp; Resubmits give students multiple opportunities to demonstrate their understanding.<\/li>\n<li>Grading practices are impacted by implicit biases. I use <a href=\"https:\/\/wac.colostate.edu\/books\/perspectives\/labor\/\">labor-based grade contracts<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, no neat, tidy statement here, as this is a work in progress. Considering taking a class with me? Here are some commitments that drive my pedagogy: I come to teaching as a feminist. This means I\u2019m interested in dismantling &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/my-teaching-philosophy-in-a-nutshell\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/ekleinfe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}