Jun 11, 2018
Kevin Patton discusses his renewed commitment to demonstrating compassion for students, including practical tips. Will sleeping in on weekends lengthen our lives? Should we give our lecture slides to students?
Summer schedule
reminder (<
1 min)
Giving slides to
students (6
min)
Update on the TAPP
APP (1.5
min)
Catch up with sleep
on weekends (3
min)
Commit to caring
for our A&P students (19 min)
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You've probably heard that students don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Hold that thought.
(0:42) Reminder: episodes released about twice a month during the summer.
(1:01) Students often want a copy of our slide presentation before class, so that they can take notes by simply annotating our slides. Is that a good idea?
- The Benefits of Longhand Notetaking Versus Slide Annotations — The Learning Scientists
- How To Take Great Notes Quickly And Easily: A Very Easy Guide: (40+ Note Taking Tips for School, Work, Books and Lectures. Cornell Notes Explained. ... More.)
(7:11) The easiest way to listen to (and follow) this podcast (TAPP Radio) is with the feature-rich TAPP APP
(8:58) Is it okay to sleep in on weekends to "catch up" with sleep lost during the week? Some new evidence from a large study.
- Kevin's Newsletter (from The A&P Professor, and powered by Nuzzel)
- Sleeping in on The Weekend Could Save You From an Early Death, Says Study (brief summary)
- Sleep duration and mortality – Does weekend sleep matter? (research article)
(11:20) Why Kevin is committing to take specific steps to show his students that he really cares about them. And how he is committing to care, no matter what.
- HAPS Instagram
- ProfessorAnatomeme (Aaron Fried's
Instgram)
- Can you find Kevin's picture with a heart?
- What
Happened When I Committed to Loving My Students Unconditionally
(article by Kyle Redford)
- [POST-PRODUCTION NOTE: I refer to Kyle Redford as "he" but she is a woman. My apologies.]
- The Transformative Power of Trauma-Informed Teaching
(article by Lauren Dotson)
- Resilience (from Harvard's Center on the Developing Child)
- Caring About Students Matters (a related article by Maryellen Weimer)
- Checking Our Attitudes About A&P Students "These Days" (post from The A&P Professor blog)
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