By Judith Ross-Bernstein with Nancy Menning How can we create environments that invite students to be actively engaged? “I break performance into smaller steps and offer students playful low-risk opportunities to incrementally build confidence, skill and voice.” Debbie Rifkin (Music/Women & Gender Studies) “I assign… Read More
Monthly archives of “February 2015”
Recommended Reads: Early Term Assessment of Teaching and Learning
Are you looking for formative processes to gather student feedback on teaching and learning? Once a month, threads@CFE shares outside blogs of interest. (click here) Early Term Assessment of Teaching and Learning This shared post from Techniques in Learning and Teaching (TILT), the blog space of the… Read More
The Arts of Questioning and Selling
By Gordon Rowland “A beautiful question is an ambitious yet actionable question that can begin to shift the way we perceive or think about something—and that might serve as a catalyst to bring about change.” Warren Berger My ability to foster deep classroom discussions depends… Read More
Engaging Students as Course Co-Constructors
By Sherry L. Deckman “To teach is not to transfer knowledge but to create the possibilities for the production or construction of knowledge.” ~ Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom Throughout each semester, I ask my Social and Cultural Foundations of Education course to provide feedback… Read More