Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Day One

Meeting a new set of students every semester is an exciting challenge teachers face semester after semester, quarter after quarter, year after year. Often instructors encounter some familiar faces; other times, the roster is brand new.

One goal is to engage the incumbents, while continuing to learn as a scholar-practitioner should-- complementing adopted course materials with current qualitative and quantitative analyses and perspectives. And, let us not forget technology.

What tools to use in the classroom, what work to assign, and how to generate productive discussion and participation are other goal-oriented questions educators deliberate, although choices depend on the academic discipline. One size, arguably, does not fit all.

...for the moment..
aSalas
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