Take It or Leave It with Liz Norell, Betsy Barre, and Bryan Dewsbury

This week on the podcast I once again borrow a format from one of my favorite podcasts and host a Take It or Leave It panel. I invited three colleagues whose work and thinking I admire very much to come on the show and weigh in on several "hot take" essays on teaching and learning in higher ed. For each essay, each panelist had to Take It (that is, agree with the central thesis of the essay) or Leave It (that is, disagree). Our judgments might have been binary, but our debates on each of the essays were full of deep and useful discussion on teaching and learning.

The panelists for this edition of Take It or Leave It were Liz Norell, associate director of instructional support at the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi; Betsy Barre, assistant provost and executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching at Wake Forest University; and Bryan Dewsbury, associate professor of biology and associate director of the STEM Transformation Institute at Florida International University. We talk about class participation, the joy of learning, generative AI, and much more.

Liz, Betsy, and Bryan shared so many good ideas and such rich insight. I hope you'll take a little time to listen to the panel or read the transcript. You can find the Take It or Leave It episode here, or search for "Intentional Teaching" in your podcast app.

Thanks for reading!

If you found this newsletter useful, please forward it to a colleague who might like it! That's one of the best ways you can support the work I'm doing here at Intentional Teaching.

Or consider supporting Intentional Teaching through Patreon. For just $3 US per month, you can help defray production costs for the podcast and newsletter and you get access to Patreon-only interviews and bonus clips.