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Consider submitting to the 2026 'Teaching Day at ISA', a teaching-centered mini conference within the ISA Annual Meeting. This year, we invite proposals of teaching demonstrations, workshops, and interactive activities. Please review the CFP and submit by 15 May 2025. #polisky #teachlearnsky

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NEW publication alongside wonderful colleagues including @profcathyelliott.bsky.social and @rosegann.bsky.social. We argue that there is so much JOY in pedagogical research and scholarship. Thank you Cathy for bringing us together! See @aspirenetwork.bsky.social to join the joy.

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We had an excellent working group exploring how we further develop Political Science Education as a sub filed. Thanks to @amandamrosen.bsky.social & Tavishi Bhasin for organising.

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Become an APSA-PSE Pedagogy Fellow! 📢 The Political Science Education Section and APSA seeks one generalist fellow and three area specialist fellows to launch a new Certificate in Political Science Pedagogy Program. Applicants must apply by 4/15: buff.ly/MAedDq7 #polisky

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What an honor to receive the 2025 Susan Strange Award from @isanet.bsky.social. It is given in recognition of "a person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community."

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#Teaching often takes a backseat to research in PhD programs—how does this shape early career instructors? 📚 Excellence in Teaching awardee @michaelpamurphy.bsky.social & Misbah Hyder explore the experiences of ECIs in #PoliSci & #IR. link.springer.com/book/10.1007... #HigherEd #Pedagogy

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Looking for a list of the #ISA2025 meetings and events? Watch this video on how to access and make sure to look at our mobile app guide for more in-depth instruction: buff.ly/3Xf7iDs

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#ISA2025 Attendees, consider attending the Teaching Day at ISA on Sunday, March 2nd. We have four great interactive panels planned on creative course design, active engagement approaches, AI, and early career instructor guidance. All in the same room-check the program for the location. #polisky

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Interested in designing #Games for an #ActiveLearning #Classroom? Join @drpigeon.bsky.social's virtual workshop to learn the basics of building games that blend #Pedagogy, immersion, & fun—plus, get a preview of Ashes of Winter, an #ISA2025 simulation design example: https://buff.ly/4jR7um1

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I'm co-chairing a session on loving conversations about a polisci pedagogy subfield forward: establishing a canon; considering graduate curriculum; and outline the key research questions, topics, and methodologies of this growing area of research and practice. Apply if these are areas of interest!

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As we gear up for our annual meeting please attend the Teaching Day at ISA virtual event on February 13th!

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#TeachLearnSky

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Call for submissions to the Political Science Educator now fully open! Please send reflections, reviews, etc. by Dec. 15! We will try to work with all authors to ensure every submission is published. You do not need to be a section member to submit to the newsletter! (only to post announcements)

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I highly recommend this volume! A great collection of articles that adds to the repertoire of the newer instructor, helping to fill the general absence of systematic training.

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Thrilled to announce my latest publication with Lisa Kerr, Wargaming Preferences: How Participating in Educational Wargames Changes Student Preferences on Learning in IPME. We found that an initial wargaming experience increases student preferences for learning via wargaming in the future.

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Just returned from a trip to Tunisia conducting intense facdev with 15 faculty, part of the DEEP program on military educational development. I taught in both English & French, saw the ruins of Carthage, & worked to strengthen bonds with allies & partners in military education. A wonderful week.

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A new handout for “I ask but my students never have any questions!” For the new instructor of #highered in your life. Or for a new angle to a perennial #pedagogy challenge. It starts with student motivations/explanations, then provides small moves targeting these explanations. tiny.cc/h39mzz

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You can teach someone how to teach, and the Venn diagram overlaps between 'learning by doing' and 'taking a class'. A solid training in how to teach incorporates extensive practice. It also reduces harm to students of first-time instructors. My latest on ALPS: activelearningps.com/2024/09/09/y...

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Looking to put together a roundtable on ethics and difficult conversations in political science education at APSA's Teaching and Learning conference in February - anyone interested in participating? #polisky #TeachLearnSky

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The American Political Science Association has some explaining to do. #APSA2024 open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

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My article with Kate Parizeau "Doubly Engaged Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges When Working With Vulnerable Communities" s #Free2DownloadAndRead We offer a framework for fieldwork-based researchers to work ethically with marginalized communities. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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#polisky, check out Matthew Stein's new piece in JPSE on pedagogy training. His interviews with 66 PhD institutions found that only ~30% require a course; most either outsource or have no requirement, relying on TAships. We clearly have work to do. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Another great paper being presented at TLC at #APSA2024: Zachary Houser's great, short, problem-based introduction to informal agreements. (Which I have just decided to try out in my own IR class next week!) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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For folks going to APSA - friends don't let friends use the horrible default panel format. Divide the time equally and open the floor discussion after each talk. Works SO much better as long as the chair enforces time limits. cyrussamii.com?p=1806

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This is great news! apsanet.org/about/welcom...

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#polisky, my latest on @alpsblog.bsky.social : a call for action on thinking seriously about how we train, evaluate, and reward teaching in all of our departments. activelearningps.com/2024/08/30/w...

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This blog is amazing for someone who wants to research but doesn't wanna die doing it. Or when your advisors don't give you advice and you have to do it almost alone 😭 (ALL THE BLOG, GO READ IT)

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Problem- & project-based learning asks students to focus their learning on the knowledge and skills needed to answer questions, solve problems, or compete a project. In the Chronicle, Chad Raymond of @alpsblog.bsky.social speaks to their benefits in the age of AI. www.chronicle.com/article/ai-a...

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Re-upping my "starter pack" for people interested in poli sci teaching and learning: mostly political scientists, some people in education and CTLs, all entirely subjective, and hopefully a little helpful. go.bsky.app/TZCXW5r

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Today on @alpsblog.bsky.social , I call on polisci sim and game designers to give their creations a name, and save me from having to say, 'no not THAT congress sim, THIS Congress sim' when I share your work. activelearningps.com/2024/08/22/n...

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Our comparative textbook is officially available! Excited to have my 1st textbook (and 1st book) out there in the world, and I'm really proud of the work that Kelly Bauer and I did to renew a good series and emphasize data/ information literacy in an intro text. faculty.cengage.com/titles/97803...

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Syl insisted on helping me unbox my new book, aimed at helping polisci instructors get started or revise their teaching practice. It's full of tips on course design, assignments, structuring lectures, grading, policy design, and much more.

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@amandamrosen.bsky.social has published a new and exciting book: "Teaching Political Science: A Practical Guide for Instructors" ❗See her thoughts on it here:❗ activelearningps.com/2024/08/05/t...

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