Episode 29: Student Perspectives on Teaching and Learning

Guests: L&S Dean’s Ambassadors

We welcome six L&S undergraduate students to the Exchange for a roundtable conversation about teaching and learning. Through their personal stories, these students share what makes an assignment spark curiosity, how interdisciplinary learning has brought value to their lives, and why they love a challenging course.

See the transcript for this episode.

The L&S Exchange Podcast is brought to you by L&S Teaching & Learning Administration and produced by the Instructional Design Collaborative. This podcast is recorded on ancestral Ho-Chunk land, a place their nation has called Teejop (day-JOPE) since time immemorial.

Join the Conversation

How did this episode make you think? What’s on your mind about inclusive teaching? Respond to a poll using the Spotify app on your mobile device, reply with a comment at the bottom of this post, or send us an email. We may ask to feature your contribution in this or a future episode.

Conversation Starters

1. What did you hear that was new or surprising?
2. What makes your content or assignments relevant to students? How do you know?
3. What role does challenge play in your course(s)? How do you talk about challenge with students?
4. Think back to when you were a student. Did anything that you heard resonate with those memories?
5. What is one positive influence you hope your course has on students?

Further Reading & Resources

In this episode we mentioned, were inspired by, or wondered about the following resources and topics.

• The L&S Dean’s Ambassadors are student leaders who foster community within L&S and promote relationships between the College, alumni, and the public.
• The Morgridge Center for Public Service offers resources, workshops, and funding for Community-Based Learning (CBL) at UW-Madison. Students can identify CBL-designated courses in the Course Search & Enroll app and through the Morgridge Center.
• SuccessWorks supports L&S students as they explore and pursue jobs, internships, and careers. SuccessWorks provides advising, resources, communities, events, and programming.

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