Teaching
Brandon Jett is an award-winning instructor who believes that the purpose of a professor is to be both a leader and partner the learning process. His classes promote active and experiential learning that allows students to take ownership of the material they are learning.
He was awarded the Inquiring Minds General Education Innovation Prize in 2023 from FSW, the Myra Hale Walters Faculty Excellence Award (aka NISOD) from FSW in 2021, the Faculty of the Year Award at Florida SouthWestern State College-Hendry/Glades in 2020, and the Graduate Student Teaching Award from the University of Florida in 2017.
He was interviewed as part of the Teaching Hard History Podcast in their episode on Criminalizing Blackness: Prisons, Police and Jim Crow in 2022.
In his classes, students have engaged in several group projects related to local history. The most recent project explores the lynching of Henry Patterson in LaBelle, Florida in 1926 and the attempted (but ultimately failed) prosecution of the men responsible. Student research (article about student research; article about bench) into this case has led to the creation of a digital history site: “Lynching in LaBelle” and the Henry Patterson Memorial Bench that was placed in Barron Park in LaBelle, Florida in 2020.
Previous class projects:
Henry Patterson Memorial Bench placed in Barron Park in LaBelle, Florida in November of 2020. Research into the lynching was conducted as part of Brandon Jett’s African American History courses during the Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 semesters at Florida SouthWestern State College-Hendry/Glades Curtis Center.
Students practicing oral history interviews as part of Brandon Jett’s U.S. History since 1877 course at Florida SouthWestern State College-Hendry/Glades Curtis Center in Spring 2020.
Students presenting their posters from Brandon Jett’s Introduction to Public History course from Spring 2019 at Rollins College.
He has taught a range of courses (see list below) in a variety of formats: online, face to face, and blended. He has also led study abroad classes in the UK.
Brandon Jett’s 2022 British History and the World from 1800-present Study Abroad course.
Previous Courses:
U. S. History to 1865
U. S. History from 1865
African American History since 1865
African American History
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Decade of Decision: The 1890s
The United States Since 1945
Policing Americans: Colonial Times to the Present
Introduction to Public History
Violence in American History
Deviance in America History
Socialism in American History
History of New Orleans: 1718-2018
Texas History
History of World Civilization, 1815-Present
Academic Internship Course
Rhetoric and Academic Research