Amanda M. Rosen
@amandamrosen.bsky.social
Polisci pedagogy and learning. Co-founder of @ALPSblog. Author of Teaching Political Science. Contributing editor of IPME. Educational gaming, teaching research, facdev, PME, and experiential learning. All opinions mine.
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I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings
Updating my comparative public admin seminar class—which was decimated by AI last year—to maybe be a little more LLM-proof by adding a 20–30 minute start-of-class writing & discussion activity. Will it work? Who knows! Full details and PDF here: governancef25.classes.andrewheiss.com/assignment/c...
September 5, 2025 at 1:11 AM
I’ve done this for 2 weeks now and it *absolutely rules*. Best class discussions I’ve ever had. Best engagement with readings. They write in this worksheet for 15 minutes, then talk about their responses in groups of 3-4, then groups share with the whole class, and *then* we talk about the readings
In my latest essay, I explore factors that can affect who serves in the leadership of ISA. I argue that requiring potential chairs to serve first as program chairs--and v.v.--could preclude many qualified, interested members from serving in entry-level leadership. @isanet.bsky.social #polisky
ISA Section Governance Structures: Differences in Self-Governance in Sections, Caucuses, and Regions
At ISA’s Annual Meeting in 2017, a colleague asked me to attend the business meeting for the International Education section. Freshly tenured and several years into faculty administration of an intern...
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August 14, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In my latest essay, I explore factors that can affect who serves in the leadership of ISA. I argue that requiring potential chairs to serve first as program chairs--and v.v.--could preclude many qualified, interested members from serving in entry-level leadership. @isanet.bsky.social #polisky
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If you're intrigued by the slide in the picture, please do have a read of this article which says more about the joy of the teaching track and the politics of the emotions that go with it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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The joy of the teaching track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies - Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann, Madeleine Le Bourdon, 2025
In recent years, the number of academic jobs in research-intensive universities that are described as ‘academic education route’, ‘teaching and scholarship’, or...
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June 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you're intrigued by the slide in the picture, please do have a read of this article which says more about the joy of the teaching track and the politics of the emotions that go with it: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@uclspp.bsky.social
@uclspp.bsky.social
For those who want to design assignments that AI struggles with, some ideas I learned from Ashley Evan's of Valencia College.
New @alpsblog.bsky.social post from @amandamrosen.bsky.social: '5 Strategies for AI-Resistant Assignments'.
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5 Strategies for AI-Resistant Assignments
I recently got to attend the University of Central Florida’s Teaching and Learning with AI Conference in Orlando, and it’s one I highly recommend for anyone interested in practical ideas on how to …
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June 7, 2025 at 2:59 PM
For those who want to design assignments that AI struggles with, some ideas I learned from Ashley Evan's of Valencia College.
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Very very excited about this, as usual!
👀 You can now register for our annual workshop on 6 June! This year is going to be bigger and more exciting than ever – come for the usual stimulating chat on the pedagogy of politics and stay for the lunch and drinks! It's all free!
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UCL-TPTN: Ethical and Epistemological Issues in the Teaching of Politics
Let's dive into the ethical and epistemological dilemmas faced when teaching politics at UCL-TPTN event!
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May 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Very very excited about this, as usual!
#TeachLearnSky @isanet.bsky.social Just 1 more day to submit to the Teaching Day at ISA. Send us micro lectures, activities, workshops, games/simulations, and any other teaching modeling/demo you want to propose. It's concurrent with Day 1 of ISA 2026. See the CFP and submit at the link below.
May 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
#TeachLearnSky @isanet.bsky.social Just 1 more day to submit to the Teaching Day at ISA. Send us micro lectures, activities, workshops, games/simulations, and any other teaching modeling/demo you want to propose. It's concurrent with Day 1 of ISA 2026. See the CFP and submit at the link below.
The deadline to submit your proposal to the 2026 Teaching Day at ISA is coming up on 15 May. Help us make this a great day of sharing teaching practice in politics and international relations.
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
Pedagogy Planning Committee: Teaching Day
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May 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The deadline to submit your proposal to the 2026 Teaching Day at ISA is coming up on 15 May. Help us make this a great day of sharing teaching practice in politics and international relations.
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
Pedagogy Planning Committee: Teaching Day
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April 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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.
1/3. Excited to announce the publication of "The Joy of the Teaching Track: Learning and Teaching in Politics and International Studies" by Cathy Elliott, Ellen Watts, Kalina Zhekova, Keith Smith, Rose Gann & Madeleine Le Bourdon!
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April 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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.
Thanks to all #APSAVRM panelists, presenters, and participants for joining APSA’s 2025 Virtual Research Meeting! We hope you found it engaging, productive, and full of meaningful collaboration.
April 11, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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:
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Call for Applicants: APSA-PSE Political Science Pedagogy Fellows | Deadline: April 15, 2025
The APSA Political Science Education Section seeks applications for its inaugural Pedagogy Fellows initiative. The first cohort of our Pedagogy Fellows will work in collaboration with the PSE Section and APSA to launch a new Certificate in Political Science Pedagogy Program. This certificate program is designed to provide high quality professional development opportunities to political science faculty and graduate students.
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April 11, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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."
March 3, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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
Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors
This edited collection introduces the term early career instructor (ECI) as a novel concept in understanding the experience of graduate students...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
#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
February 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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
#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
February 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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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
February 19, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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
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!
February 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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!
February 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As we gear up for our annual meeting please attend the Teaching Day at ISA virtual event on February 13th!
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Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game
Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game, Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in a…
Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game, Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in a…
Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game
Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game By Michelle M. Buehlmann, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks In Let’s Shutdown the Government: An Instructional Game, Dr. Buehlmann argues that government shutdowns are the crisis in a negotiation strategy, commonly called brinkmanship. This game presents shutdowns as a tool to foster acquiescence and relies on the assumption that elected officials benefit when their actions align with public preferences.
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December 26, 2024 at 3:01 PM
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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)
You do not need to be a section member to submit to the newsletter! (only to post announcements)
Umm, hi everyone, welcome! If any of you have thoughts about teaching political science -- definitely in light of current events, but also just in general -- the Political Science Educator is going to have a Winter deadline of Dec. 15. Please submit! A few notes:
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Political Science Educator - APSA
The newsletter of APSA's Political Science Education Organized Section.
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November 25, 2024 at 2:26 PM
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)
You do not need to be a section member to submit to the newsletter! (only to post announcements)
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.
AVAILABLE NOW
“Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors,” a collection of chapters on the unique challenges and opportunities facing early career instructors - co-edited with Misbah Hyder!
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
“Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors,” a collection of chapters on the unique challenges and opportunities facing early career instructors - co-edited with Misbah Hyder!
doi.org/10.1007/978-...
Teaching Political Science and International Relations for Early Career Instructors
This edited collection introduces the term early career instructor (ECI) as a novel concept in understanding the experience of graduate students...
doi.org
December 3, 2024 at 3:56 PM
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.
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.
IPME 2024 Wargaming Preferences
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November 18, 2024 at 6:41 PM
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.
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.
November 11, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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
Any questions? Understanding Student Silence One-Pager
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September 16, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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