by Chris Grabau, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Student identity development is an expanding interdisciplinary field that strives to identify, describe, predict, and explain behaviors that shape identity (Evans, Forney, Guido, Renn, Patton, 2010). One of the main focus areas for the field is the study of psychosocial events that help shape student identity as college… Continue reading Course Design Strategies for Student Identity Development
New Resource Guide on Difficult Dialogues
A new resource guide on Difficult Dialogues in the Classroom[LINK] has been posted to the Reinert Center website [LINK]. If you want to talk with someone about difficult dialogues in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form [LINK]. If you have ideas for resource guide topics you would like to… Continue reading New Resource Guide on Difficult Dialogues
Implicit Bias
by Sandy Gambill, Sr. Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Implicit bias is not a new concept, as the 28,100,000 returns on a Google search demonstrate. However, it is a concept that is being discussed in a wide range of situations lately, including the first presidential debate [LINK] of the 2016 election cycle. Harvard’s Project Implicit [LINK] offers perhaps… Continue reading Implicit Bias
Creating Inclusive Course Assignments
A new resource guide on Creating Inclusive Course Assignments [LINK to PDF] has been posted to the Reinert Center website. If you want to talk with someone about designing more inclusive assignments in your own classes, you may request a teaching consultation by completing this form (LINK). If you have ideas for resource guide topics… Continue reading Creating Inclusive Course Assignments
Focus on Teaching & Technology Conference: Nov. 3-4
SLU faculty and graduate students are invited to attend the 2016 Focus on Teaching and Technology Conference (FTTC) on November 2-3 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The two-day conference features presentations, workshops, and exhibits on emerging trends and effective uses of technology in higher education. Several SLU faculty and instructors are scheduled to present including: Simone… Continue reading Focus on Teaching & Technology Conference: Nov. 3-4
Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces: What Do You Do?
by Sandy Gambill, Sr. Instructional Developer, Reinert Center It’s hard to open a newspaper this fall without coming across an article about trigger warnings or safe spaces on college campuses. Perhaps the most well-known set of readings is from the University of Chicago, where the dean of students, students, and faculty have all weighed in.… Continue reading Trigger Warnings and Safe Spaces: What Do You Do?
Who Are You Excluding? Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom
by Debie Lohe, Director, Reinert Center When developing this year’s theme of Inclusive Teaching, Reinert Center staff and advisory board members considered this question: Who are we excluding in our courses? Even without being aware of it, our courses may create unnecessary obstacles to learning for some or many of our students. For instance, my… Continue reading Who Are You Excluding? Seeing the Diversity in Your Classroom
Faculty Book Group: Claude Steele, Whistling Vivaldi
October 21, 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Des Peres 214 The Reinert Center will host a conversation for faculty (full- and part-time) on the effects of stereotypes and how stereotype threat enters into our classrooms as we discuss the book, Whistling Vivaldi, by social psychologist Claude Steele. We will be giving away a copy of the book… Continue reading Faculty Book Group: Claude Steele, Whistling Vivaldi
Intersectionality in Action
by James Fortney, Instructional Developer, Reinert Center Intersectionality, a term coined by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw (1989), “provides a critical lens to interrogate racial, ethnic, class, physical ability, age, sexuality, and gender disparities and to contest existing ways of looking at these structures of inequality” (Dill & Zambrana, 2009, p.1). A recent edited volume by… Continue reading Intersectionality in Action
Ignatian Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy
by Gina Merys, Associate Director, Reinert Center Critical pedagogy is a philosophy of education and social movement that combines education with critical theory. First described by Paulo Freire, it has since been developed by others as an approach to inclusive teaching practices. Critical pedagogue Ira Shor defines critical pedagogy as: "Habits of thought, reading, writing,… Continue reading Ignatian Pedagogy as Critical Pedagogy
The Notebook 