Today's session was a great start. Thank you Fred for saying that 'fear is the warm-up'. I will use that again! I'm always excited to see Fred's ppt as they are so full of things that I have no idea how he has built such an interesting presentation. They are succinct and visually very interesting and conveys the information and makes it all fun. I particularly appreciated his message of "give them a treasure map", help them across resources and skills, give yourself time, and give space along the way. I will definitely incorporate these ideas and probably many more in my classes.
I also liked his differentiating between just cramming more works and more papers as a way of building an honors course, but what if we did the above and more. I will definitely go back to Ball State's website to get ideas for course projects.
I really have liked reading Palmer's book and like most, I connected with many of the points in the first four chapters. It's exciting to me that this training group have all read this book and to feel that there are colleagues that may be of like mind, and certainly there may be things we disagree with, and that is exciting too for the possibility of the richness of discussion.
Thanks for listing out the main themes/concepts. Good job! Great way of getting a "temperature" of where everyone is at. You're demonstrating connectivity and how we can facilitate this in our own class, yes? Well done! And certainly demonstrates that we can direct our own efforts by allowing each of us to go after the key concepts that we are interested in.
I also realize that the my experience via Student Life is somewhat different than those of the faculty evidenced by the concerns voiced in class. Josh's need to be focused on student evaluations, and how that impacts his career. I care about doing a good job with my classes, hopefully a great job with my classes and students, but the focus on student evaluations is not on my radar to the extent that it is for new faculty.
I also liked his differentiating between just cramming more works and more papers as a way of building an honors course, but what if we did the above and more. I will definitely go back to Ball State's website to get ideas for course projects.
I really have liked reading Palmer's book and like most, I connected with many of the points in the first four chapters. It's exciting to me that this training group have all read this book and to feel that there are colleagues that may be of like mind, and certainly there may be things we disagree with, and that is exciting too for the possibility of the richness of discussion.
Thanks for listing out the main themes/concepts. Good job! Great way of getting a "temperature" of where everyone is at. You're demonstrating connectivity and how we can facilitate this in our own class, yes? Well done! And certainly demonstrates that we can direct our own efforts by allowing each of us to go after the key concepts that we are interested in.
I also realize that the my experience via Student Life is somewhat different than those of the faculty evidenced by the concerns voiced in class. Josh's need to be focused on student evaluations, and how that impacts his career. I care about doing a good job with my classes, hopefully a great job with my classes and students, but the focus on student evaluations is not on my radar to the extent that it is for new faculty.
That's an excellent point about the difference between what Student Life sees and what faculty see. That would make a great faculty development day, maybe.
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