Thank you very much for your comment. I liked how you underline the similarity between appetite and intellectual interest. I believe that such framing, which address the everyday aspect of both of these actions help to move beyond the characterized and simplified understanding of the experience of learning/teaching.
Author: ezgiseref
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment. I also believe that the most fundamental point in both cooking and teaching is their experimental nature. I want my students to be able to shape their own opinion about what we have discussed in the classroom and present it to her/his audience to keep the experiment going. This is the way we are able to create things that are unique, whose value is to be assessed by further experiments.
Comment on From Cooking to Becoming a Chef by ezgiseref
Thank you so much for your comment. This is exactly the point I wanted to make by writing on this metaphor. Cooking is so much embedded in our daily life and the way we socialize. In addition, the concrete nature of the labor we put into cooking makes it easier to talk about an abstract issue such as thinking, learning, and teaching.
Comment on A Response to Alfie Kohn by ezgiseref
Thank you for bringing the issue of stigmatization of , I shall say, anti-grading approach. Since grading is considered a measure to how fair the distribution of success is any attempt to question such measure is taken with a grain of salt and criticism.
Comment on A Response to Alfie Kohn by ezgiseref
Thank you for bringing the issue of stigmatization of , I shall say, anti-grading approach. Since grading is considered a measure to how fair the distribution of success is any attempt to question such measure is taken with a grain of salt and criticism.
Comment on Deconstructing the Grading System by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your post. I really appreciated how you pointed out the way we establish relationship with disciplinary institutions such as school and family. There is no doubt such fear limits our autonomy and limits our ability to act they way we desire, if not to think the way we want. Your question brought my mind, the differences between the learning my experiences in public and private schools. While public schools were packed with hundreds of students, trying to survive through the semester, in private school, not only the teachers but also the students have the space to ask questions, for lengthy discussions, and to express themselves. Maybe, partly, it depends on the distribution of resources.
Comment on Let’s Share The Carrot and Break The Stick! by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment. I agree that we need to contextualize our efforts to teach and become more creative in our course designs and instruction techniques. It is the biggest part of our job. However, I believe assessment should not be something that turns the entire process of learning a fight for survival. It should rather promote self reflection and mindful learning. I believe too much emphasis on the assessment/grading paves the way for establishing outcome oriented relationships with the students. One way or another we will be exposed to an assessment process at some point in our lives. I argue that the relationship the students establish with the assessment does not have to be top-to-down, blind to the multitude of ways of learning, and thus, painful.
Comment on Let’s Share The Carrot and Break The Stick! by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment. I found the idea to comment on the students performances as opposed to grading them. Although I also grade my student, I give them the option to revise their paper and resubmit their assignments as long as it is a fundamental part of the learning process. I benefited from self reflection in my learning process. Therefore, I try to give more space to my students.
Comment on Let’s Share The Carrot and Break The Stick! by ezgiseref
Thank you very much for your comment. I look for and experiment new ways of establishing a relationship that are not predominantly depended on grades. It is challenging; however, I observe that my objectives in teaching is very much in line with my passion in pursuing this a career in academia.
Comment on Let’s Share The Carrot and Break The Stick! by ezgiseref
thank you very much for your comment. I think the question is rather how we conceptualize the assessment process and whether we pay attention to the students’ individual ways of learning. Even if we are required to use conventional assessment techniques, we need to make sure how we frame it and contextualize it in terms of the learning process and the perception of success.
