Professors Talk Pedagogy

Today, our guest is Amy Goodman, Lecturer in Mathematics at Baylor University. An early advocate of online teaching at Baylor Professor Goodman is currently chair of Baylor’s Teaching, Learning, and Technology Committee. She is currently finishing her PhD in Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. She was also a recent recipient of a teaching exploration grant for a project investigating technologies enabling online math students to more easily show their work. We are delighted to have Professor Goodman on to discuss creativity in online teaching.

Today our guest is Dr. Darin Davis, Director of Baylor’s Institute for Faith and Learning and clinical professor of moral philosophy in the Honors Program. Dr. Davis teaches courses on ethics and has been instrumental in scholars programs that help students connect faith and learning, including the William Carey Crane Scholars for undergraduates and the A.J. Conyers Scholars for graduate students. He is a regional editor for the International Journal of Christianity and Education and conducts research on the vocation of learning, educating for wisdom, and the philosophy of friendship. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Davis for a conversation about student character development, what it means to teach “Christianly,” and much more.

Today, our guest is Dr. Laine Scales, professor in the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work at Baylor University. Dr. Scales has served in many roles at Baylor, including teaching on the faculty of the School of Education, facilitating Baylor’s Summer Faculty Institute, and for many years as Associate Dean in the Graduate School, focusing on graduate student professional development. In 2016, Dr. Scales was named a Baylor Master Teacher—the University’s highest recognition for teaching excellence. We are delighted to welcome Dr. Scales to the show to discuss authenticity in teaching, relating to your students as “whole people,” and much more.

Today our guest is Dr. Gaynor Yancey, Lake Family endowed chair in Congregational and Community Health, Director of the Center for Church and Community Impact, and professor of social work teaching in both the Diana R. Garland School of Social Work and Truett Seminary at Baylor University. Dr. Yancey has won several teaching awards, including outstanding professor in 2006, the Cornelia Marshall Smith award in 2019. And she was also named a Baylor Master teacher, the highest honor awarded by the university. We are delighted to have Dr. Yancey on the show to discuss teaching as vocation, changes in students over the last generation, seeking continual improvement in our teaching, and so much more.

Today our guest is Dr. Thomas Fergus, associate professor of psychology at Baylor University. Dr. Fergus’ research focuses on gaining better understanding of anxiety disorders and obsessive compulsive disorder and the connections between psychological disorders and metacognitive beliefs. A published author on multiple studies related to student text anxiety, Dr. Fergus joins us today to talk about student mental health, wellbeing, and the implications on our teaching.

Today, our guest is Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black, professor of English at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Dr. Cognard-Black has received 12 faculty development grants from St. Mary's and two Internationalization and Teaching and Learning Grants (2011 and 2016), and she has been given the highest honor for teaching that St. Mary's students bestow, the Faculty-Student Life Award, at three distinct times during her career (2002, 2009, and 2019). She is also the 2020 recipient of the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, the nation's largest monetary award for university teaching. As part of her designation as the Cherry Award recipient, Dr. Cognard-Black is in residence at Baylor University in the Spring 2021 semester, teaching and collaborating with faculty. We are delighted to have Dr. Cognard-Black on the show to talk about the promise, unpredictability, and politics of Empathetic Teaching.

Episode description - Today, our guest is Dr. Charles Weaver, Professor and Chair of the department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Baylor University. In 2020, Dr. Weaver was named a Baylor “Master Teacher,” the highest honor for teaching bestowed by the University. We are delighted to have him on the show to talk about Baylor’s teaching legends, enthusiasm for what you teach, and much more!

Today our guest is Dr. Anne-Marie Schultz, professor of philosophy and director of the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. We are delighted to have her on the show to talk about mentoring teachers, metaphors for teaching, and literature on teaching that speaks to the heart.