Reflective Teaching

Call for Reviews: Books+ About Higher Ed Teaching!

Do you like reading about teaching? Do you like talking with others about what you're reading? Write a review for us! Recursive started publishing book reviews because more and more faculty are searching for better ideas about teaching college students, and we wanted...

We’re Publishing Book Reviews! Pitch Us!

We are thrilled to announce that Recursive will have a new book review section focusing on higher ed pedagogy! This new section will be edited by Rebecca Weaver, who brings to this role previous experience in writing about pedagogy for Recursive, Hybrid Pedagogy, the...

A Different Type of “Dear Student” Letter

This school year, some GSU Perimeter faculty have been participating in a CETLOE faculty bookclub, reading Cia Verschelden's Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, racism, and Social Marginalization. In a recent discussion,...

Supporting Your Students During Times of Uncertainty

by Dr. Claudette L. Tolson (ctolson@gsu.edu) Associate Professor of History, Georgia State University's Perimeter College As we entered 2020, none of us could have expected a global pandemic and nationwide social unrest. This year has definitely been overwhelming. You...

Creating Medication Card Masters (Pandemic Pivot Series)

by Dr. Lorrie Stewart-Torres (lstewart25@gsu.edu) Faculty Instructor ADN Pediatric Program, Georgia State University's Perimeter College Medication Card completion is one pharmacologic learning intervention given to nursing students. Medication or Drug cards are...

Scholarly Teaching (short and long form essays)

Call for Reviews: Books+ About Higher Ed Teaching!

Do you like reading about teaching? Do you like talking with others about what you're reading? Write a review for us! Recursive started publishing book reviews because more and more faculty are searching for better ideas about teaching college students, and we wanted...

We’re Publishing Book Reviews! Pitch Us!

We are thrilled to announce that Recursive will have a new book review section focusing on higher ed pedagogy! This new section will be edited by Rebecca Weaver, who brings to this role previous experience in writing about pedagogy for Recursive, Hybrid Pedagogy, the...

Watching before Writing: Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacy in the Composition Classroom

By Charles Fox (cfox4@gsu.edu) In his essay, “How to Teach Film Adaptations, and Why,” Thomas Leitch argues for restructuring English departments in a way that more accurately reflects our new vision of that which is literary. Whereas in a traditional English...

Time for Self-Evaluation: Responding to Student Writing

By Lauren Curtright (lcurtright@gsu.edu) English instructors at all levels of education, as well as the professional organizations that set our pedagogical standards, must take a hard look at our beliefs and practices about responding to students’ writing. In the face...

“It’s Just Too Important”: Service Learning and Social Justice

By Matt Dolloff (mdolloff@gsu.edu) Debra Greenwood in Journal Of Education And Training Studies defines service learning as “a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning...

SoTL Work in Progress (Short and Long Form Essays)

Revising My Peer Review Sessions: Creating a “Peer Tutor” Experience in the Classroom by Rebecca Weaver

Revising My Peer Review Sessions: Creating a "Peer Tutor" Experience in the Classroom by Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu)   Introduction: This semester, I tried a new approach to peer review that I based on a typical peer tutoring session in a writing center....