My mouth went dry as I looked out at my classmates. I hovered near the podium as my professor pulled up my slides. “Okay, you’re all set,” he said. I took a deep breath and launched in. “I will use…
Digital Tools: Group Blog Post
This blog post is a collaboration between Emily Burns, Jonilda Bahja, Sam Silknetter, Logan Perry, and HokieInstructor. In a post from Hybrid Pedagogy, author Sean Michael Morris writes that “just as the pedagogue will enter a room and rearrange the…
Case Based Learning for Future Teachers
I am grateful to learn about problem-based and case-based learning in this class. In the class I will teach in the spring, I previously planned to have students hear stories written by disabled writers. Although I may still incorporate some…
Implicit Bias and Brave Spaces
Not Again. This is my second time taking two implicit bias tests in a row. Both times I took the disability test the second time. Both times my results indicated a strong preference for abled bodies of disabled bodies. How…
Discovering My Authentic Teaching Self
I get to design and teach an online course for Spring 2021 for my Graduate Assistantship. I will teach a Pathways course, Educating Exceptional Learners, so I will have undergraduate students from various majors. I hope to motivate students to…
Quick Post
This is a test post for Contemporary Pedagogy.