Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom

Jessamyn Neuhaus shares about her book, SNAFU Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, on episode 577 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Human beings make mistakes. We make mistakes as part of learning. We make mistakes just being in the world.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Academia generally attracts people with perfectionist tendencies.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Sometimes there is no positive outcome when something goes wrong. Sometimes things just get messed up because people are human.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Inadvertently we have a subtext that teaching is somehow perfectible. Teaching and learning will never ever be perfectible.
-Jessamyn Neuhaus

Resources

• Snafu Edu: Teaching and Learning When Things Go Wrong in the College Classroom, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
• Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence (CTLE) at Syracuse University
• Picture a Professor: Interrupting Biases about Faculty and Increasing Student Learning, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
• Geeky Pedagogy, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
• Manly Meals and Mom’s Home Cooking: Cookbooks and Gender in Modern America, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
• Let’s Get Real or Let’s Not Play: Transforming the Buyer/Seller Relationship, by Mahan Khalsa
• The Sleeper, by Mike Wesch
• SIFT (The Four Moves), by Mike Caulfield
• Our University Is Replacing DEI with Vibes and Vaguely Diverse Stock Photos by Carla M. Lopez for McSweeney’s
• DEI? You’re Fired! with Heather McGhee on The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
• 10 In the Moment Responses for Addressing Micro and Macroaggressions in the Classroom, by Chavella Pittman
• 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People, by David Yeager
• Critical Teaching Behaviors: Defining, Documenting, and Discussing Good Teaching, by Lauren Barbeau, Claudia Cornejo Happel
• Dippity Do Girls with Curls Curl Boosting Mousse
• MoMA Sliding Perpetual Calendar
• Mrs. Meyer’s Clean Day Hand Soap
• Teaching and Learning Together in Higher Education
• International Journal for Students as Partners
• Tea for Teaching Podcast
• The Present Professor, by Elizabeth A. Norell
• Thrifty Shopper
• We Are Lady Parts on Peacock