Student Voices Are Assets
Daily Archives: June 21, 2022
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I want to create a space wherein students feel heard and respected. Where the end goal is growth and expansion. A space where ideas can be shared and challenged.
Read. Think. Engage. Create.
To Understand Ask Why
I tell my students that when they don’t understand something–a poem, literary theory, what I am teaching in class–I can help them; however, they have the answer to their question if they ask the right questions. I like to start with a simple “why?”… Read more “ #4WordPedagogy”
There is a saying in China: give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day, teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. In an art history class where data can be overwhelming, I believe in teaching student the different ways to interpret that data to help them understand the world.
What is learner-focused about my syllabus is that I ask my students to co-create the class with me. Also, as far as the writing assignments go, all students are free to choose which texts they write about; this also holds true for the research paper: students are free to choose a research topic which resonates with them — as long as it is thematically connected to a text we have read and discussed in class during the semester,
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What is learner-focused about my syllabus is that I ask my students to co-create the class with me.
This post explains how to get your students to be members of your course.
