JP Gannon
@jpgannon.bsky.social
Collegiate Associate Professor at Virginia Tech. Catchment hydrology, data sci, teaching, undergrad research. bikes. he/him http://vt-hydroinformatics.github.io
This week's two posts are about Connecting concepts and Practicing. Can you guess what Ron Swanson gif I managed to fit (maybe) into one of them?
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Thinking Through Teaching | JP Gannon | Substack
Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.
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October 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This week's two posts are about Connecting concepts and Practicing. Can you guess what Ron Swanson gif I managed to fit (maybe) into one of them?
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
This week in my college teaching class we talked about Retrieval Practice and Interleaving! I wrote about our discussions!
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
Thinking Through Teaching | JP Gannon | Substack
Exploring college teaching strategies. Click to read Thinking Through Teaching, by JP Gannon, a Substack publication. Launched 8 months ago.
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
This week in my college teaching class we talked about Retrieval Practice and Interleaving! I wrote about our discussions!
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com
Yesterday in my college teaching class we discussed predicting as a learning strategy.
Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?
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Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?
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Teaching about... Prediction
Prediction as a learning enhancer
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October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Yesterday in my college teaching class we discussed predicting as a learning strategy.
Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Before you read: what do you PREDICT we thought was important in designing prediction activities for a class?
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
A discussion about exams, wherein a student compares teaching well to making a movie, and I don't disagree.
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Teaching about... Exams!
No one ever has opinions about exams.
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September 25, 2025 at 5:44 PM
A discussion about exams, wherein a student compares teaching well to making a movie, and I don't disagree.
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices!
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Teaching about... Assignments etc
The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon
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September 23, 2025 at 2:48 PM
From my college teaching class: The good, the bad, and the disagreed upon about assignment practices!
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
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What students* think about quizzes, lectures, learning styles, laptop bans, which teaching strategies are active, which are effective...
*my small graduate "how to teach college" class
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*my small graduate "how to teach college" class
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Graduate Teaching Class: Teaching Methods
What is active learning? What is effective teaching?
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September 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
What students* think about quizzes, lectures, learning styles, laptop bans, which teaching strategies are active, which are effective...
*my small graduate "how to teach college" class
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*my small graduate "how to teach college" class
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Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago.
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Curriculum type things
Discussions about curricular strategies and more from a class on teaching college
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September 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Writing through my teaching class: A discussion broadly about curricular type things wherein I remember a nasty teaching eval comment from 10 years ago.
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
The save icon continues to be an interesting indicator of changing computer literacy/practices:
Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk.
TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all!
We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?
Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk.
TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all!
We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?
September 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
The save icon continues to be an interesting indicator of changing computer literacy/practices:
Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk.
TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all!
We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?
Used to be students knew it as the save icon but not that it was a floppy disk.
TODAY in class multiple students did not know what a save icon was at all!
We don’t click “save” much anymore! Do we?
This semester, I'm going to write about what we discuss in my college teaching class. The first 2 weeks have been a doozy, but I managed to get some stuff down!
On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching
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On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching
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Graduate Teaching Class: Week 1 & 2
Writing my way through teaching a class on teaching
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September 4, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This semester, I'm going to write about what we discuss in my college teaching class. The first 2 weeks have been a doozy, but I managed to get some stuff down!
On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...
On beginner teaching philosophies and Ch 1 of McGlynn's College Science Teaching
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/graduate-t...
Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class?
Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..
Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..
Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool
We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class?
Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..
Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..
Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!
dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
I spoke at our college graduation and told graduates 4 things. In retrospect those things are pretty related to teaching, so I posted them here: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
What I told graduates
Four things...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I spoke at our college graduation and told graduates 4 things. In retrospect those things are pretty related to teaching, so I posted them here: open.substack.com/pub/thinking...
Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...
Code in Class: All of the topics
Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.
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May 14, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...
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.. and if you are teaching about hydrologic modeling and need a smooth on-ramp, highly recommend @jpgannon.bsky.social HBV model: cuahsi.shinyapps.io/HBV-model/
Before working with other platforms, we had a calibration competition - prizes given for best AND worst NSE for different watersheds!
Before working with other platforms, we had a calibration competition - prizes given for best AND worst NSE for different watersheds!
Run the HBV Model for one of 700 CARAVAN Watersheds
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May 7, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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This week's teaching post: students teaching students
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Students teaching students
Peer teaching is powerful!
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May 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
This week's teaching post: students teaching students
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Highly recommend. This is one of the books we work through in my College Teaching class and really helped me develop my own teaching philosophy.
Here's the book! It's been adopted by a bunch of departments for new grad students and is all about infusing mutual respect into the fundamentals of how we run our classrooms.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching
Higher education is a strange beast. Teaching is a critical skill for scientists in academia, yet one that is barely touched upon in their professional training—despite being a substantial part of the...
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April 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Highly recommend. This is one of the books we work through in my College Teaching class and really helped me develop my own teaching philosophy.
This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course.
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Integrating coding into an existing class
How I teach students to code along with disciplinary material
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April 30, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This week's teaching post: How I integrate coding into a non-coding focused course.
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This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn
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Assessment and Retrieval Practice in a Code-Heavy Class
Some ideas for assessments that help students learn
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April 23, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This week's post about teaching... Quizzes, Tests, Labs, and other stuff to help students learn
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/assessment...
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CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection.
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April 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
CUAHSI is happy to share our 2024 Annual Report! New this year, we’ve added a Research Highlights section capturing much of what we do to support and engage with the community. We hope the report is informative and is a positive point of reflection.
www.cuahsi.org/uploads/libr...
www.cuahsi.org/uploads/libr...
This weeks' post about live coding: how to talk.
"I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end."
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"I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end."
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How to talk while live coding
normalizing errors, growth mindset, stereotype threat....
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April 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This weeks' post about live coding: how to talk.
"I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end."
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...
"I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end."
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...
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Our April e-Newsletter is out and it is loaded with content and announcements including new funding opportunities, a new workshop, a new cyberseminar and much more!
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April 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Our April e-Newsletter is out and it is loaded with content and announcements including new funding opportunities, a new workshop, a new cyberseminar and much more!
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This week's writing about Live Coding: This week I’m writing about nuts and bolts. How do I get students the code, what do we do in class, how do you like… do it.
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Live Coding: Making it Happen
setting up to run a class
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April 9, 2025 at 12:42 PM
This week's writing about Live Coding: This week I’m writing about nuts and bolts. How do I get students the code, what do we do in class, how do you like… do it.
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...
One of my classes went so poorly today (endless tech issues, mostly) that one of my students emailed to say I’m doing a great job 😂
Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”
Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”
April 3, 2025 at 9:04 PM
One of my classes went so poorly today (endless tech issues, mostly) that one of my students emailed to say I’m doing a great job 😂
Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”
Simultaneously thoughts of “students are great” and “wow yes that really was bad”
This week's teaching post: How I set up for live-coding in class.
"I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. "
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"I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. "
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/setting-up...
Setting up to Live-code in Class
More exciting that is sounds!
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April 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
This week's teaching post: How I set up for live-coding in class.
"I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. "
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/setting-up...
"I think of my strategies for live coding as strategies to keep from giving students reasons to disengage. "
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/setting-up...
I love two stage tests:
Overhearing the stuff students are organically discussing as they work collaboratively to get everyone a 100% on the 2nd stage of a two-stage coding-based exam so so so thoroughly dismisses any concerns I have with it taking up too much class time or not boosting learning.
Overhearing the stuff students are organically discussing as they work collaboratively to get everyone a 100% on the 2nd stage of a two-stage coding-based exam so so so thoroughly dismisses any concerns I have with it taking up too much class time or not boosting learning.
March 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I love two stage tests:
Overhearing the stuff students are organically discussing as they work collaboratively to get everyone a 100% on the 2nd stage of a two-stage coding-based exam so so so thoroughly dismisses any concerns I have with it taking up too much class time or not boosting learning.
Overhearing the stuff students are organically discussing as they work collaboratively to get everyone a 100% on the 2nd stage of a two-stage coding-based exam so so so thoroughly dismisses any concerns I have with it taking up too much class time or not boosting learning.
This week in writing about teaching: Over the next several weeks, I'm going to explore how I handle teaching students to code in classes that aren't just about coding.
This week: Why live code?
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This week: Why live code?
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Live coding: what is it and why you might want to try it.
Fun, scary, and it works!
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March 26, 2025 at 11:11 AM
This week in writing about teaching: Over the next several weeks, I'm going to explore how I handle teaching students to code in classes that aren't just about coding.
This week: Why live code?
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...
This week: Why live code?
thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/live-codin...