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Author Archives: Ryan Donovan

1003, 2016

On Building a Community in the Classroom

  • Ryan Donovan
  • March 10, 2016
  • Pedagogy Guide, Peer mentoring, Reflection, student-centered pedagogy
  • 483

This blog is a reflection on implementing strategies and tools I learned as a student in the inaugural course offered by the

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3005, 2015

Mapping the Semester

  • Ryan Donovan
  • May 30, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 463

I could only hope that my students got half as much out of our semester together as I did as a result

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0505, 2015

Two Great Resources

  • Ryan Donovan
  • May 5, 2015
  • Events of interest
  • 344

Hi all, Here are two resources I have been meaning to share: KQED’s MindShift blog. This is a wonderful resource from the Bay

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2804, 2015

The Power of Play

  • Ryan Donovan
  • April 28, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 557

In last week’s session on “Embodiment and the Classroom,” I briefly spoke about the lifelong importance of play after we had done

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2504, 2015

Hunter College Intro to Theatre Map: Theatre Across New York City

  • Ryan Donovan
  • April 25, 2015
  • Mapping
  • 501

Students in Hunter College’s Intro to Theatre course were assigned to see a performance of their choice and write a reflection on

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1704, 2015

“Earth is Forgiveness School”–Anne Lamott

  • Ryan Donovan
  • April 17, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 775

Our class sessions on Professors & Persistence got me thinking about the role of forgiveness in the classroom, particularly inspired by writer

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1504, 2015

Education in the Age of Adjunctification

  • Ryan Donovan
  • April 15, 2015
  • Class Recap, Reflection
  • 445

Yesterday’s class session with John Mogalescu, Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs at CUNY, was really wonderful, inspiring, and a bit troubling,

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2703, 2015

What we (don’t) talk about when we talk about adjuncting

  • Ryan Donovan
  • March 27, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 590

I came across this wonderful post from The New Yorker about the adjunct problem and thought it could spark a good conversation.

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1803, 2015

Reflections on Student-Centered Learning and Experiences

  • Ryan Donovan
  • March 18, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 1699

As we’ve been focusing on student-centered learning the past few weeks, it has been inspiring to see how creative all of my fellow

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0203, 2015

Preparation and Self-Assessment

  • Ryan Donovan
  • March 2, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 525

As we worked on our assessment units in class, I began to think about how assessment follows us from birth to death. For

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