Challenges by Aris Winger https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w What Challenges have you faced or will face? en-us 2023-11-03 12:19:00 UTC 2023-11-03 18:40:06 UTC hello@padlet.com Resources (Time, Money) https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674197 2023-11-03 18:27:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674197 Faculty who feel threatened by change https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674228 2023-11-03 18:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674228 Faculty who are overworked already, asking them to do more https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674556 2023-11-03 18:27:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674556 Institutional Silos https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674587 2023-11-03 18:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674587 Not enough faculty https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674603 2023-11-03 18:27:31 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674603 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674728 Time!

]]> 2023-11-03 18:27:39 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674728 Complacent faculty https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674792 2023-11-03 18:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674792 Visualizing something new. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674803 2023-11-03 18:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674803 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674810 Faculty who don't want to change (comfortable) along with not having the money/resources to get the resources students need

]]> 2023-11-03 18:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674810 Getting access to and opening the minds of students who have already made up their minds about who can do mathematics https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674905 2023-11-03 18:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674905 Lack of Faculty https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674925 2023-11-03 18:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674925 not enough time. not enough energy https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674929 2023-11-03 18:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674929 syoshinobu https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674951 Growing the number of allies who do stuff.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674951 motivating students to interact with learning materials https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674986 2023-11-03 18:27:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775674986 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675174 There are a lot of "traditional" faculty in my department who mostly bemoan "students these days" and I worry that affecting change outside of myself will be really challenging.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675174 Students are different https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675189 The things that worked pre-pandemic don't seem to work now

]]> 2023-11-03 18:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675189 faculty https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675193 some want to change fast and look down on the conservative ones


Others think this is all a crazy fad distracting from REAL math

]]> 2023-11-03 18:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675193 campus culture - lacking scholarly environment https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675270 2023-11-03 18:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675270 Administrative demands https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675285 We're not allowed to have "underenrolled" courses. That makes it difficult to hold many upper level courses

]]> 2023-11-03 18:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675285 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675413 Trying to do too much and still sleep.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675413 Reliance on part-time faculty that move on to some other school. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675631 2023-11-03 18:28:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675631 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675651 Too much to do, too little time, and everyone expects me to do more than what I can provide

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]]> 2023-11-03 18:28:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675922 too many initiatives, not enough communication/collaboration https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675986 not enough communication/collaboration on them (one unit is doing something, another is doing something else, no one knows what anyone is doing until it is done)

]]> 2023-11-03 18:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775675986 Trying to do a lot with less. It can become...rough when you want to make change, but it seems there are a number of obstacles (administrative, political, financial) that make it difficult to produce said change. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676372 2023-11-03 18:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676372 syoshinobu https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676387 How do we train a large number of faculty to teach with a focus on equity and be good colleagues in hostile environments?

]]> 2023-11-03 18:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676387 Even when you have a group of faculty who are using best practices and working with the best of intentions, it doesn't solve all the problems for the students https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676391 2023-11-03 18:29:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676391 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676426 Generating student engagement. In my experience, students over the past few years participate less than they used to, despite efforts to make it easier/more rewarding to engage.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676426 Lack of support from Administration and institutional structure. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676456 2023-11-03 18:29:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676456 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676548 Administration support; it can be hard to get them to allow us to make changes without yielding immediate benefit or costing nothing

]]> 2023-11-03 18:29:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676548 The tension between a university vision of culturally sustaining work and budget-driven decision-making when "rubber hits the road" for action https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676591 2023-11-03 18:29:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676591 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676828 Administration that does not understand the difference between teaching math and liberal arts. Some of the classroom and online technology needs are different.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775676828 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677508 We all assume students come to us prepared to do the work and to study, but I've found so many of them just don't know how to study and/or have such weak foundations that they won't be successful, yet they "qualify" to be in the classes

]]> 2023-11-03 18:30:37 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677508 Perception of Mathematics among STEM professionals (in particular) about the role of Mathematics at the Institution. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677623 2023-11-03 18:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677623 Rural education constraints https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677659 2023-11-03 18:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677659 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677804 Trying to get students to have more confidence to try new ideas

]]> 2023-11-03 18:30:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677804 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677958 The current state of many classes taught by adjuncts, that may be good, but do not participate in improving the overall picture.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775677958 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775678064 What the next generation of students will be like .... and each student is unique regardless of how we generalize

]]> 2023-11-03 18:31:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775678064 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775678274 In my state there are governmental headwinds for anything DEI related. That feels hard to navigate.


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]]> 2023-11-03 18:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775678290 syoshinobu https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775678621 How to deal with "grandstanders" AKA people who act like they support DEI but actually are just doing it for themselves.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775678621 I'm not certain if people are willing to accept the reality regarding students' mathematical preparation and proper course placement. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775679276 2023-11-03 18:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775679276 Don't know what we don't know https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775679534 Students don't know what the higher-ed "mathematics" curriculum is supposed to be, we lose some students because of this.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775679534 how to know what students can do when we are "test optional" https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775679858 2023-11-03 18:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775679858 I would love to sit down with FTIC and talk to them about what's expected of them in college. https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775680140 2023-11-03 18:33:41 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775680140 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775682958 How do we find open resources that have a rich set of examples so that you do not have to reinvent the wheel in one or more of our 4 different classes.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:36:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775682958 https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775686101 On the whole I worry that I am not doing enough to support or inspire African-American students in my classes, where they don't appear in large numbers, and pass in lower numbers than other groups. Especially men.

]]> 2023-11-03 18:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775686101 Seeing what I am doing https://padlet.com/ariswinger/nbwyfvha3sim4f8w/wish/2775686946 Finding ways to read books and online websites with low vision issues.

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