September 18, 2007
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Kalamazoo – we need to get students to reflect – Kinsey would say: but what about teachers? Dr. Richman: Why do you do what you do? Reflect on it. Walking by an office: “Oh, don’t do that.” -> Monologues & advice to students, same to other faculty. What is the right way to instruct anything? Attendance policies: Why do we have one when students, in my class particularly, fail themselves by missing daily work? Why not reflect on why students wouldn’t want to come to class? If we have interesting classrooms or content or have daily work, why do we need an attendance policy? Can we have a conversation about this instead of a monologue about how we have to pin students down? We want students to make connections, reflect on how pieces of information interconnect within ideas. Why is it not a great idea to show them our own reflections? Links back to showing them our own writing (Writing teachers should be writers.) [This small post reminds me of that piece I had my 110 students read – how the writer connected two unlike situations about two places’ workers.]
