Plenty of warnings for Canadian politicians buried in here. Ricky's Law is the Washington State involuntary treatment regime. Ricky himself was detained for treatment - several times. Ultimately, it was too traumatizing & Ricky fled out of state to escape his own law.
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Are you one of the many profs assigning my article "Beyond Territorial Acknowledgments" in your class? Well I've got an updated version for you!
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Feels like last year - everyone moving here and finding each other. Me wondering about how to set up the courses I'm teaching next term while also making it to the end of this term.
Anyways, Hi. As you can tell, it's been a long while since I social media'd in public. Will this stick? Who knows.
Perfectly timed for my class on decriminalization and legalization Monday... (also hi!)
This term I am excited for my plans. All first year courses (90% of the students in all).
1. No exams in one course
2. Options - write prose/poetry, create...
3. Unessay
4. Split topics (topic introduced, go away to look at resources, debrief next class)
5. AI permitted (under conditions)
I was originally sad that we started classes yesterday. Shortest winter break ever (9 days).
But now I appreciate the quiet peaceful drive in, my children still being in bed when I leave, and not having first-day jitters and back to school/daycare on the same day.
But I am le tired.
I got my 6yo to help stamp Christmas cards. He missed at least 8 - and I didn't notice until they went into the mail.
THEY MADE IT. Thanks Canada Post!
I'm looking for a predictable way to end each class for a potentially traumatizing course. Not reflections - could create emotional responses for people who live(d) the course content.
What ideas do you have blue sky? Do we do # here? #HigherEd (just in case)
My first year as full-time faculty, teaching 3-3 load, and I decided to do "one cool thing" in each course. So far: learning teams, journals, unessay, cumulative reflections, learning circles, and a class with no exams.
Break the mold. It's way more fun (and meaningful).
This has my brain going! I'm teaching a 3hr class next term, and now wondering about splitting the class in 2: first half a deep dive into the topic post-resource, and second half a preview/appetite creation for the next topic/resource. Thanks for sharing!
Planning next team's assignments, and want to avoid research papers.
Has anyone done a book review in a first year social scence class? Having students pick from a list, then instead of a written review, some sort of unessay-ish demonstration and connection to course content. #highered
Booo. I was hoping it was and I just didn't notice. [also shakes fist]
That would be amazing! Thank you! (I'm so new here, is dm-
'ing a thing?)
The Professor is In has excellent CV content on their website.
My students asked me last week if I was giving them review notes before the midterm... No? I made a jam board with multiple slides and they split into groups. Each group took a topic and made a review on it.
Tomorrow I find out if it was valuable. Study skills need to be taught.
What if I told you that there is a evidence-based field of study skills that has very clear and specific recommendations about how students can study for learning and success? It's literally wild that we don't teach this to teachers and professors. WILD GIF NEEDED HERE.
You stumbled into my feed at the exact right time (planning for assessments next term). Have you ever done this in intro classes? I've planned "staged project" as a major full-term assignment but haven't found a structure I like- until now! un-structure for the win!
The time has come. I've been avoiding the *site that should not be named* for a while, and need to just end that relationship.
Does anyone here have tips on how to locate all the cool amazing people I followed in *that place*?
I guess I'm here now....