Navigating Data Resources: How to Teach Students to Find Data Sets

This post is a partial “copy and paste” of a workshop that I attended at the 2013 Teaching and Learning Conference. The authors [Librarians] are Mara Rojeski from Georgetown University and Annelise Sklar from University of California, San Diego. Personally, the workshop was very helpful, which is why I am web loggin’ it. Thanks!! ****************************************************************************** Navigating Data Resources:  How to…

Teaching Philosophy

Students prefer differentiated instruction and I prefer authentic assessment. For the students, I generally teach (1) via a lecture or (2) through cooperative learning workshops. I begin class by (A) writing questions/comments students want to discuss from the reading on the board, (B) reviewing the course outline on the syllabus—reminders of quizzes, tests, essay due…

Data Analysis of My T&L Conference Paper 2013

For the entire paper, see Research Tab. Data Analysis 37 students completed a voluntary survey in my Fall, 2012, Political Science 1010 course. The survey consisted of 20 questions (14 substantive and 6 demographic). Because the survey was administered via the course Blackboard site; students (only) were invited to complete the survey via the Blackboard…

Teaching and Learning Conference 2013, Long Beach

I will be presenting a paper at the 2013 Teaching and Learning Conference. See paper here. Abstract I experiment with teaching (and students’ learning) scholarly articles from the field of Political Science in “Introduction to American Government.” From my perspective [teaching], this essay explains how I organized, implemented and evaluated two collaborative workshops as well…

How I use Blackboard

I use Blackboard, every semester, with the following format (i.e. the tabs on the left side of screen): Announcements: post information about political science events, news, and class changes / reminders. Syllabus: post the syllabus by itself. Reopen it at every class to point out the schedule. Online classes or hybrids (half online and half face-to-face)…

Original Locke

***As part of my dissertation, I will explain the structure of liberalism. This is a portion of my literature review in Chapter 3: The Structure of Liberalism (working title). This is from Locke’s Second Treatise.  The ends of political power are to determine that the people of a community, for the public good, are able…