Cultivating Hope and Action Beyond Grades

Josh Eyler helps us cultivate hope and action beyond grades on episode 534 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Teachers, instructors, educators at all levels can really work with students to find elements of what we are teaching that those students find individually interesting.
-Josh Eyler

We can help them learn how to ask questions that are meaningful to them, how to really dig in and find ways that the content becomes meaningful to who they are as people.
-Josh Eyler

We’re in another period of significant grading reform right now, fueled, I believe, by mass communication and social media. People are now able to connect in ways that in previous eras of grading reform, they were not able to.
-Josh Eyler

Resources

• Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It, by Josh Eyler
• How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories Behind Effective College Teaching, by Josh Eyler
• Kariann Fuqua
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, by David Epstein
• Moonwalking with Einstein : The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer
• Self determination theory
• Reconceptualizing Participation Grading as Skill Building, by Alanna Gillis
• University of Virginia: Michael Palmer
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life, by Anne Lamott
• Premortums
• Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, by Kevin Gannon
• How to Podcast: How to help a Loved One with Dementia
• Failing Our Future: How Grades Harm Students, and What We Can Do about It, by Josh Eyler
• Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal, Bettina L. Love
• Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching, by Jarvis R. Givens
• Indigenous Educational Practices
• Matt Townsley