Thank you for your post! I agree that it is so important to be authentic when we teach and to create environments where students feel comfortable seeking help, asking questions, learning from those in the class, and learning about the person teaching the class. I really enjoyed reading about your experiences finding what is authentic for you. Thanks for sharing!
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I absolutely loved this post! It can be so tempting to try to be like our favorite teachers or those we look up to even if that is not authentic for us. But I really appreciated how you stated that this can be a starting point from which we can move and adapt and change and grow. Through these experiences, experiments, and adaptations, we can figure out the kind of teachers we are. Thanks for the post!
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I agree that this was a great post! I really enjoyed reading it and I think you brought up a lot of great points! In addition to giving feedback as opposed to a numeric grade, I think it is really important to allow for revisions and failures and restarts. When students are just evaluated based on one score at one point in time, it is a make or break situation. But what if we help students along the way and let them figure out what is working well and what is not, how to take something and make improvements. I think there would be so much learning and growth in that! Thanks for the post!
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I really enjoyed your post! It was so cool to hear about your experience teaching and how you have structured your class. I think if we all can make even small changes, that can lead to big changes!
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This was a great post! I really enjoyed reading it! From my own experiences in grad school, I definitely do much better when I am in an environment where I can explore things that are interesting and important to me, and I can do that at my own pace.
And to Hana’s point, it gets pretty complicated when you consider how faculty are evaluated by universities and how that might affect how faculty interact with graduate and undergraduate students. I have witnessed people talking about changing things while at the same time giving you advice on how to conform to those very same things. It can be exhausting!
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I really enjoyed your post! I really like this idea of helping students explore a variety of methods and helping them see the benefits of certain methods, why certain methods might be used, etc. Thanks for the post!
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Thanks for your post! I really enjoyed all the quotes that you included. I am curious what your thoughts are on including this inspiration in education and how can we as educators inspire?
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Thanks for your post! I really appreciate your idea of being transparent in your teaching and telling your students the importance of being mindful and thinking critically. I have found that students are very receptive when they understand why they are doing something. Sometimes we just need to tell students that we are not wanting them to give “the right answer.” We want them to engage with the ideas and explore multiple perspectives and connect information and see it from new angles. I will be interested to hear how trying this out in your classroom goes! Thanks for the post!
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I absolutely loved your post! And we definitely do the same thing in engineering.We have students find the “solution” to problems, but we don’t always engage them in the problem-solving process. So many times, students know how to complete the steps in a problem (they have procedural knowledge) but they struggle with the concepts and have a hard time describing what they are doing and why and what assumptions they are making and what assumptions they can make. And then if a problem looks different on a test (even if the concepts are the same as other problems they are more familiar with), students say that they are being tested on material that wasn’t covered in class. I absolutely love your last paragraph and completely agree that we should focus more on problem-solving and less on solved problems. Thanks for your post!
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I really enjoyed reading your blog post this week! I really appreciate that you bring up the importance of imagination in educational settings. And your question at the end about how to utilize and create digital opportunities is really interesting. It got me thinking about ways that educators can use technology to provoke imagination and help students think critically and imagine alternatives. Because, unfortunately, I have also seen technology used to just find an answer. How can we as educators push students beyond that to explore possibilities and imagine alternatives? Thanks for the post!
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