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Students Teaching Each Other

Tonight’s session from the Lilly Conference online 2021 was entitled “Peer teaching: Mastering Concepts Through Active Learning” and presented by Sherry Lin from Texas A & M University. Lin defined active learning as “a method of learning where students are involved in the learning process” and “engages students in their own learning by doing things […]
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A Fair and Equitable Community of Learners

Kathleen F. Gabriel wrote a book we read as part of an OFD Reading Circle several years ago: Teaching Unprepared Students. Gabriel presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online on “Embracing Student Diversity in the Midst of Our Society’s Strife.” Gabriel began by speaking about the hate crimes and marginalization that our society has endured, […]
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Supporting Black Women in Mathematics

In a presentation entitled “Black women and belongingness: An interrogation of STEM education as a white, patriarchal space.” Drs. Luis Leyva and Nicole Joseph from Vanderbilt University presented work on the experiences of Black women in STEM. First Dr. Joseph discussed the gaps in representation for Black women in STEM and particularly in mathematics. Leyva […]
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Faculty Support and Community During a Pandemic

I watched another Lilly Conference recording that was uplifting and demonstrates the resourcefulness and ability of faculty development units to support instructors during the pandemic. Kathryn Zawisza and Don Johnson from the University of Arkansas described the efforts of their units to support instructors. They, like many other instructor support units, had to quickly launch […]
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