By Josh Eyler from A Lifetime’s Training Thoughts on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Take a look at both New York Times recent (10/17/15) Op-Ed piece, by Molly Worthen, Lecture Me. Really. and Josh Eyler’s blog (A Lifetime’s Training) (10/20/15) response. Worthen’s provocative ideas… Read More
Monthly archives of “October 2015”
FUBU: A Case for Mid-Semester Evaluations
By Judith Ross-Bernstein “In a FUBU universe, students become the primary agents of their own learning by providing feedback and creating artifacts that emerge out of their own experience (“by us”) for their own learning benefit (“for us”).” (Silva, 2015) Silva shares a distinctly student-centered… Read More
In Service of Getting Messy
By Patricia B. Spencer I believe the best of learning happens in the messiest of circumstances—on the bridge between the classroom and the community, in a context of irreverent inquiry and shifting roles between teacher and learner, in a relationship that has to be nimble… Read More
Relationships at the Heart of Learning
By Judith Ross-Bernstein “Development is on their side.” In my head, I can hear my mentor say this to me, an early career teacher, with kindness and wisdom. She said this to me often, reassuringly, as a keenly attentive listener to my classroom stories. After… Read More