I don’t want to quantify it because I haven’t conducted a formal study or anything, but an immense amount of teaching is about reflection.
Oh, students didn’t get something?
It’s not them. It’s you, boo.
A reading didn’t go over very well, or almost everyone struggled with it?
Well, maybe you need to chuck it. Or create a reading guide, with questions to engage and prepare them before they dive in. Mark particular points in the text that you want them to focus on, paragraphs that are crucial to unlocking the text–and ask them, in advance, to mull over these passages in depth.… Read more
Notes:
- I’m leaving a .1% margin here to account for things like fire. Or natural disasters and extreme weather that prevent students from physically getting to class, or other things outside of our control. ↩
- Many thanks to Elizabeth Alsop, Luke Waltzer, and the TLC Summer Institute participants for inviting me! ↩