Picture a professor : interrupting biases about faculty and increasing student learning / edited by Jessamyn Neuhaus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

How blind professors win the first day: setting ourselves up for success / Sheri Wells-Jensen, Emily K. Michael, and Mona Minkara -- Critical reflexivity as a tool for students learning to recognize biases: a first day of class conversation on what a professor looks like / Jesica Siham Fernández -- Commonalities and research: a one-two punch to combat STEM fears and biases on the first day of class / Kelly E. Theisen -- Where's the professor? First-day active learning for navigating students' perceptions of young professors / Reba Wissner -- Using experiential learning to humanize course content and connect with students / Breanna Boppre -- Collaborative rubric creation as a queer, transgender professor's tactic for building trust in the classroom / Fen Kennedy -- Reflect to deflect: using metacognitive activities to address student perceptions of instructor competence and caring / Melissa Eblen-Zayas -- From absentminded professor to epistemic collaborator: reframing academic expertise through vulnerability and metacognition / Rebecca Scott -- Black man in a strange land: using principles of psychology and behavior science to thrive in the classroom / Erik Simmons -- Beyong making statements: the reflective practice of becoming an anti-racist educator / M. Gabriela Torres -- Rippling the patterns of power: enacting anti-racist pedagogy with students as co-teachers / Chanelle Wilson and Alison Cook-Sather -- Beyond "good writing": enacting anti-racist policies in academic writing / Jacinta Yanders and Ashley JoEtta -- The superpowers of visual ambiguity: transfiguring my experience of colorism and multiheritage identity for educational good / Donna Mejia -- Sharing our stories to build community, highlight bias, and address challenges to authority / Sarah Mayes-Tang -- Teaching up: bringing my blackness into the classroom / Celeste Atkins -- Empowered strategies for women faculty of color navigating teaching inequities in higher ed / Chavella T. Pittman.

"A collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies to inspire transformative student learning and interrupt stereotypes about what a professor looks like. Picture a Professor is a collection of evidence-based insights and intersectional teaching strategies crafted by and for college instructors. It aims to inspire transformative student learning while challenging stereotypes about what a professor looks like. Representing a variety of scholarly disciplines, the volume's contributing authors offer practical advice for effectively navigating student preconceptions about embodied identity and academic expertise. Each contributor recognizes the pervasiveness of racialized, gendered, and other biases about professors and recommends specific ways to respond to and interrupt such preconceptions-helping students, teachers, and others reenvision what we think of when we picture a professor. Educators at every stage of their career will find affirming acknowledgment of the ways systemic inequities affect college teaching conditions, as well as actionable advice about facilitating student learning with innovative course design, classroom activities, assessment techniques, and more"-- Provided by publisher.

Jessamyn Neuhaus is a professor of history and Center for Teaching Excellence director at SUNY Plattsburgh.

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