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Tim’s Tips: National Association for Multicultural Education ListServ
National Association for Multicultural Education ListServ This is a mailing of the National Association for Multicultural Education -(NAME) Listserv. The materials included reflect diverse perspectives of NAME Listserv participants and do not necessarily reflect a position of the National Association for Multicultural Education. If you would like to subscribe (or unsubscribe) to this listserv go [...]
Tim’s Tips: True Diversity Includes Both Left and Right
October 16, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education True Diversity Includes Both Left and Right By Ted Gup Last month, as our students returned to campus, I was reminded of a conversation I had with a parent a year ago. He said his son was politically conservative and uncomfortable speaking in class. He had come [...]
Tim’s Tips: A Stutter in Class
A Stutter in Class October 18, 2011 Inside Higher Education A newspaper recently ran an article on a stuttering student who says he was told by his professor to ask his questions after class, rather than during it. And it wasn’t just any newspaper, but The New York Times, so the story immediately went viral. [...]
Tim’s Tips: Adjunct Professors Often Lack Training in How to Handle Disabilities in the Classroom, Experts Say
October 16, 2011 The Chronicle of Higher Education Adjunct Professors Often Lack Training in How to Handle Disabilities in the Classroom, Experts Say By Brenda Medina The news last week that an adjunct professor had asked a student with a stutter to save questions or comments until after class highlights concerns about how well the [...]
Tim’s Tips: Instructor of Stuttering Student Defends Conduct
Quick Takes, October 14, 2011 Inside Higher Education Instructor of Stuttering Student Defends Conduct The instructor at the County College of Morris whose treatment of a student with a stutter was the subject of a front page article in The New York Times says that her treatment of the student has been portrayed unfairly. The [...]
Tim’s Tips: Instructor Told Stuttering Student Not to Talk
Quick Takes October 11, 2011 Inside Higher Education Instructor Told Stuttering Student Not to Talk An instructor in a history class at County College of Morris told a student with a stutter that he should not ask questions during class, and she declined to call on him in class, The New York Times reported. The [...]
Tim’s Tips: Professor Hushes Student Because of His Stutter
Professor Hushes Student Because of His Stutter October 11, 2011, 2:58 pm The Chronicle of Higher Education Elizabeth Snyder, a history professor at the County College of Morris, in Randolph, N.J., asked a student, Philip Garber Jr., to keep quiet in class because, she said, his stutter was disruptive, The New York Times reports. In [...]
Tim’s Tips: Academic Minute: Mathematics and Learning Disabilities
Academic Minute: Mathematics and Learning Disabilities Inside Higher Education October 4, 2011 In today’s Academic Minute, Michelle Bower of Landmark College explains how a teacher’s perception of a student’s math ability can negatively influence actual ability. Find out more about the Academic Minute here. http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/10/04/qt#271825
Tim’s Tips: Department of Things They Don’t Teach in Graduate School: Students with Autism and Higher Ed
Department of Things They Don’t Teach in Graduate School: Students With Autism and Higher Ed September 26, 2011, 7:34 am The Chronicle of Higher Education By Claire Potter In Saturday’s Daily Beast, author Priscilla Gilman writes about “Autism’s Back To School Anxiety.” The parent of a young teenager, Gilman notes that the kinds of discipline [...]
Tim’s Tips: Why I Can No Longer Teach U.S. Military History
September 18, 2011 Why I Can No Longer Teach U.S. Military History By Joyce S. Goldberg The Chronicle of Higher Education This past August, I wrote a letter to the chair of my department explaining why I am no longer willing to teach U.S. military history. Although I taught the class regularly and, I believe, [...]