Nice post Susan. I went through the same as you during my undergraduate career. Even though my classes size were about 50 students, i was never able of making many friends because my career goals were completely different from them. Besides that, all my classes assignments were sorted into two exams (80%) and one project or homework (20%). In this sense, i did not have many chances to work on groups: “And yet we isolate students instead of connecting them”
Author: Nayara Faria
Comment on Connecting the Dots by Nayara Faria
Hey Maha! Thanks for sharing. It is nice to see that this class has had a good impact on how you see teaching. I guess this course is a small step we are taking to make a difference as college professors. For me too, this class has helped to understand and improve my teaching style. I will also keep continuously looking for strategies and ways to be a better professor.
Comment on Connecting the Dots: Overcoming my Forgotten Self to New Beginnings by Nayara Faria
Tim. Thank you for sharing this post. When I was reading your reflection I felt emotive because I can relate with most of what you have said. In the beginning of the semester, I did not know what to expect from this class. I have always knew I wanted to be a professor, but once I started my masters degree at VT i felt into depression and high levels of anxiety. This course has changed the way i see higher education and what I want for my life as a future faculty member. As you said, now I can see the challenges and heart aches that not only my colleagues go through but also undergrads (both from my lab and third party interaction) from an instructors point of view. “To a new beginning” !
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Comment on She Believed She Could So She Did by Nayara Faria
Hey Robin,
Thank you for sharing this post with us. It is nice to see that you care about your students both inside and outside class. This semester has been really rough for me, not because of academic matters, but because of personal life. Because I have no family in US, sometimes i feel that no one care about me and my personal success here, and honestly this demotivate me to continue my career into the phd program. Fortunately, my advisor is a professor is like you, and he has making a lot of difference in my life. Thank you for caring about students, people like you make a difference in the world.
Comment on Critical Pedagogy: Defined and Illustrated by Nayara Faria
I love the way you guys designed your post with memes! It was really nice to read it.
In your blog post you mentioned: Critical consciousness can be used as a political tool. I believe that Paulo Freire said that, right? Paulo Freire is from Brazil, and I am also from there. In the past weeks, the Brazilian president has heavily criticized Paulo Freire as a credible person. For him, the ideas of Paulo Freire have no sense and the brazilian education system should be changed (he believes that ideas from the dictatorship times in brazil should be implemented in our system). I have heard reports that the police is entering schools in which professors are “teaching liberal ideas”. Some professors were taken to jail. All along Paulo was right. Current politicians want no critical pedagogy in schools, otherwise the general population would learn how to think, and then presidents like the current one would never be elected. Sad reality!
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Comment on A Collaborative Definition of Critical Pedagogy through Jig-Saw Pedagogy by Nayara Faria
I like this definition : ” In critical pedagogy, students and teachers are all in a same group. They learn together, ask a lot of questions and embrace the joy and power of thinking together.” I believe that no many professors understand that teaching is also learning. Most of the classes that I have taken in my life worked as the banking system. I hope that in the future I can contribute to change at least come of this reality.
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GEDI Post 6: Opening Knowledge at Virginia Tech
Virginia Tech believes that openness is the future of higher education. Openness ensures greater dissemination, inclusiveness, and integrity for the advancement of knowledge and the education of the next generation.
On January 2019, Virginia Tech Library launched an awesome booklet that introduces a few of the many open resources you can find in and through the Library. You can download the booklet in this link . The first section, “For Scholars,” highlights the wealth of open scholarship in the Library’s collections as well as tools we make available to researchers for writing and publishing open scholarship. The second section, “For Instructors and Students,” focuses on tools and resources specifically aimed at making learning accessible, abundant, and customizable for all.
These resources, tools, and services, plus a great deal more, can be found on the Library website by visiting lib.vt.edu/open-access and Open@VT, blogs.lt.vt.edu/openvt. Throughout the booklet tools and resources marked in maroon, orange, and grey indicate the following:
- Maroon are resources provided by VT.
- Orange are tools supported by VT.
- Grey are resources created at VT
Comment on Blog#3 Inclusive Pedagogy – It all starts in Kindergarten. by Nayara Faria
Hi Cindy, It is really nice to know that some people like you are working really hard to make the classroom a more inclusive environment for kids. I believe that most discussion regarding inclusive pedagogy are done by colleges and not schools. And as you said, It all starts in Kindergarten!
Comment on Week 6 — Diversity (cost?) (benefits?) by Nayara Faria
I liked your fourth point: “When an institution “markets” its diversity numbers, does that have any psychological implications on the “diverse” individual — maybe self doubt (Do I really deserve to be here or am I just here to meet the diversity criteria?)”. I guess you have a strong point here. Being honest, for many times I have asked this question to myself and for many times i really feel I have been accepted just because of diversity criteria!
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Comment on Men are better at Science than women : a case of gender bias in Academia by Nayara Faria
Your post is AWESOME! I can not imagine how women in this conference felt during his presentation! This week I have submitted my first conference paper (yeahhh!). When I ask a professor to take a look in my paper before submission, one of his advices was not to include ANYTHING that suggests that i am a woman! I got a bit shocked. But he said that there are many bias cases against women to publish papers!
