Nice blog! I enjoyed reading your blog. I completely agree that if we want our student success, we as an instructor, need to guide them and help them to reach that goal.
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Comment on professionals are still human beings by Sogand
Great Post! enjoyed reading your blog because this is exactly what I felt until three years ago that I started working towards my Ph.D. under the supervision of a new assistant professor. I came to realize that being professor does not mean to be a perfect person and always there is room to improve. By this experience, I now feel more confident about my future career goal to be a professor.
Comment on Humanities and Real-World Needs! by Sogand
Great discussion and example, Neda! I enjoyed reading your blog. Humanities are the crucial factor to be taken into account before developing any solution to problems where the people will be its user. Nowadays, we are overwhelemed by technology, and we can see that the actual user of these innovative technologies or solutions have been forgotten.
Comment on On Diversity and Inclusion by Sogand
Thanks for this blog and additional conversation. I felt most of the emotional states – that Ernesto mentions- when I marginalized in the classroom during these four years at graduate school. And put this my mission as a future faculty to not let anyone feel like I felt in my classes and hopefully create an inclusive environment for my students.
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Comment on Brave Spaces Are Preferred by Sogand
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this article. I also did not get the differences between brave and safe spaces very well, and your explanation and paper help a lot. “Language is important and may contribute to misconceptions of the goals of creating inclusive environments.” This paper discusses that a safe space may not be entirely safe and it provided many good points how to make the inclusive environment in the classes and on-campus.
Comment on What animals can teach us about inclusive pedagogy by Sogand
Nice blog, Erin!
I always enjoy reading your blog since you are thinking out of the box and bring some examples from everyday life to explain the concept. I understand that it may not be directly related to teaching but as soon as the human learns this empathy to others like what animals do and they can incorporate this concept in their teaching, but as always we first should take the first step.
Comment on Lets Get Real by Sogand
You raised a fascinating point that our perception of a good teacher stems from our experience, but there is no guarantee that these experiences are sufficient to be a good teacher. I think there are several ways to become a good teacher, we need to learn from experience and re-evaluate our performance in this continuous process.
Comment on No More Grades by Sogand
I completely remember the same situation for myself that I forgot a lot of things at an exam or I made terrible mistakes in the calculation because of stress. And the reason behind all these bad performances is stress and fear of grades. I grew up in an educational system that the grade talks about everything, it significantly impacts your future and this is the only reason to keep you motivated. But at this point in my life, I frequently ask myself how much I have learned and how much can I remember from those lessons I memorized and got a good grade on that? Yes, you are right, the fake motivation undermined my learning and creativity. I think more research should be done to come up with strategies to facilitate shifting from the grade-oriented to the learning-oriented system.
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Comment on Why are we taught to be sheep? by Sogand
Nice blog! I like how you bring examples of our daily lives that we do not know the reasons behind the facts and not speak-out and ask “why” before accepting everything in most of the learning process. I do not mean to break the rules but thinking out of the box and flourish more and more1
I grew up in an educational system that we accept everything that we have been taught, but as you well said, when I enter in grad school and do researching, I see that much common knowledge can be incorrect/ half- incorrect. I was a real sheep in the school, but this blog is inspiring me to be the black sheep, be different, and think freely. But what I am concerned with is how encourage my future students not to be a sheep? Or how can we incorporate this into our teaching?
