Category: Teaching/Learning Strategies
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On Teacher-Student Relationship
I’m not going to pretend like I know all the answers for this post, because the truth is that I don’t think there is a universal response for how to have relationships with students. Every student is different and every teacher is different. When I was a hospice volunteer I was told that there is…
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Writing Practice
One of the most important and crucial aspects of building the discipline of being a writer is to actually write, and for those of us who don’t like handwriting, to type, and for those of us who can’t/don’t type, to dictate. Dictation apps are available on iPhones and I’m sure on other devices as well.…
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Flipped vs. Teacher-Centered Classrooms
Community is essential to the learning process, although I am concerned about how people with paranoid disorders would be included or would include themselves in any community at all. The teacher-focused approach of “objectivist” teaching is as flawed as the “subjectivist,” “flipped classroom” where the students become the conduits for what is acceptable knowledge in…
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A Basic Guide to Critical Reading
Ask yourself: what do I see? what does it mean? and how can it be understood? What do I see? When I am reading a text critically, first of all, I always have a pencil – I am looking to ask questions, not write answers. I am asking myself if I have an accurate grasp…
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Book Review: From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry
Book Editors: Anne E. Streaty Wimberly, Nathaniel D. West, Annie Lockhart-Gilroy From Lament to Advocacy: Black Religious Education and Public Ministry tackles the problem of racism in contemporary US education, society, and religion. The book is unique: unlike a lot of the racial justice books I read, it didn’t talk about the complicity of the…