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In Praise of Reading the Syllabus

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 22

I think this is a good time to redirect you to this thing I wrote back in January. The problem isn't reading the syllabus on the first day of class. It's that your syllabus sucks!
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One Classroom at a Time — Harvard University Press

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Many thanks for making an exception!

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you!

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Thank you!

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is such a good book, and I can't recommend it highly enough. A great blend of theory and practice, practical yet motivating....it would look good on your bookshelf, I'm just sayin'

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s been way too busy around here so I haven’t posted, but…my new book came out last week! It’s called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Save 25% now with code BTS25.From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US ...

Back-to-School Reading List — Harvard University Press

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

HUP Is running a back to school promotion that features the book (among other educational titles) on sale—25% off—until September 30: www.hup.harvard.edu/features/bac...

Practical advice for faculty, students, administrators, and anyone who wants to keep on learning.

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

And check this out, from the mighty @biblioracle.bsky.social!

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

If you can believe it, I was lucky enough to be read by @susandblum.bsky.social!

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

And @thetattooedprof.bsky.social!

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's @kfitz.info!

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Here’s what some very smart people have said about One Classroom at a Time:

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s a book for instructors who want to help all of their students succeed and for higher ed decision-makers who want their institutions to follow through on the promises in their brochures and on their websites.

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

One Classroom at a Time makes the case that the right kind of teaching, enacted throughout our institutions, can make colleges more equitable. It also, of course, lays out exactly what the right kind of teaching is.

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s still the case that many of us still teach the way our professors teach (which is pretty much how their professors taught.) Our students have changed a ton over the past few decades, but our teaching has not.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

I spent much of the past five years reading study after study looking at interventions that would help marginalized students succeed in college courses. We know A LOT. But universities are not putting this knowledge to use.

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

This despite the fact that a) first-year GPA is by some measures the strongest predictor of whether a student will graduate within six years, and (more to the point) b) we now know SO MUCH about which teaching strategies can help lead to more equitable outcomes within individual classes.

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Even though universities have presumably fought for decades against achievement gaps along the axes of race, socioeconomic status, disability, and (in certain fields) gender, they’ve done almost nothing to try to change how professors teach.

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

Teaching has been wildly underused as a means of combatting inequities in higher education.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

I also want you to read it because I think that a more equitable university is possible, that achieving this isn’t as complicated as we think, and that the best path there is through better teaching.

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

You won’t be surprised to hear that the book was a labor of love, that I worked on it for more than five years, that I very much want you to read it because of how hard I worked to make it good.

One Classroom at a Time — Harvard University Press

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Aug 21

It’s been way too busy around here so I haven’t posted, but…my new book came out last week! It’s called One Classroom at a Time: How Better Teaching Can Make College More Equitable. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Save 25% now with code BTS25.From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US ...

One Classroom at a Time — Harvard University Press

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David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Jul 25

(I don't usually look this crazed; at the time of the photo I had been awake for nearly 36 hours straight.)

David Gooblar @dgooblar.bsky.social · Jul 25

Preorder here: www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

From the author of The Missing Course, an essential guide to pedagogy that serves all members of an ever more diverse undergraduate population.A century ago, a typical US college campus was a sanctuar...