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Breaking Silence: A Critical Duoethnography on Examining Epistemic Violence in Negotiating the Journey as International Graduate Students in U.S. Higher Education
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Milad Mohebali; Elmira Jangjou – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2025
This critical duoethnography takes silence in classroom discussions as a sociocultural artifact that reveals the norms of the society that upholds it. In this research, we made visible and explored the content of silence we experienced as international graduate students. We found that repeated patterns of silence in classroom discussions acted to…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Graduate Students, Foreign Students, Classroom Communication
Women of Color Teaching Students of Color: Creating an Effective Classroom Climate through Caring, Challenging, and Consulting
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Saavedra, Dora E.; Saavedra, Marisa L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 2007
Being a Hispanic female faculty member in South Texas can be a challenge. This chapter discusses three pedagogical tools (caring, challenging, and consulting) that we use to create a classroom climate that enhances Hispanic students' success by engaging and motivating them to succeed in one of the poorest areas of the country.
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Women Faculty, College Faculty, Hispanic Americans
Ensuring Equitable Participation in College Classes.
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Sadker, Myra; Sadker, David – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1992
Research reveals striking differences in college classroom participation patterns across gender, race, and ethnicity. Trained faculty can change these patterns. An American University experimental equity training program illustrated that trained faculty (n=23) were 38 percent more interactive than the control group, giving more precise feedback to…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Patterns, Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques
Evaluating Technology-Based Processes and Products.
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Morrison, Gary R.; Ross, Steven M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Special problems in assessing how college students use technology and the products they create with it are discussed using the examples of listserv discussions (student participation, quality and coherence of discussion, selection of postings) and a computer-based data analysis in a graduate statistics course. Rubrics for evaluating each are…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Computer Uses in Education, Electronic Mail, Evaluation Criteria
Why TA Training Needs Instructional Innovation.
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Andrews, John D. W. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1985
Major functions of teaching assistants (TAs) and innovative methods are proposed. TAs help students learn through interaction, coach students in higher thinking skills, and provide a communication channel to integrate the course. A course planning guide based on performance objectives and classroom activities to stimulate student participation are…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Course Objectives, Educational Innovation, Educational Objectives
Grading Classroom Participation.
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Bean, John C.; Peterson, Dean – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1998
Grading class participation can send positive signals to college students about the kind of learning and thinking an instructor values. Various structures for participation (whole-class discussion, cold-calling on students, collaborative learning, electronic mail, journals, student-faculty conferences) call for different approaches to assessment.…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Techniques, Cooperative Learning, Discussion (Teaching Technique)