- Why was your favorite teacher so great?
- Did you have a class that made a difficult subject easier to learn?
- What are some strategies that worked for you--either as a teacher or a learner?
- What was your most memorable learning experience?
Thank you for participating in Teaching & Learning Day, in celebration of the inauguration of AU President Neil Kerwin!
6 comments:
My teachers were teaching propaganda during the war, and demonstrated the influence of the soap box using real soap boxes!
We explored international stereotypes through parody and role-play. Hilarious and very memorable!
My class did a dynamic simulation of foreign-policy-making.
I moved to the US when I was in third grade. My third grade teacher was this wonderful woman named Mrs. Locke. Mrs. Locke understood that it was difficult to move to a new country and not speak the language. I remember how she used to sit with me and help me read my English textbook. She was always very nurturing and kind. Mrs. Locke made sure that I felt part of the class and encouraged me to participate as much as I could. I always felt safe in her classroom. Mrs. Locke passed away a few years ago but she will always live in my heart.
The teacher really pushed us to get beyond the words on the paper. She asked us to explore and understand the context of the writing - to put ourselves in the time period of the philospher and understand their motiviations. Among other texts, we explored the Second Treatise of Goverment to really understand what Locke meant when he professed: "no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions". She asked us not just to report from the reading, but view it in a specific context to understand the deeper implications of those words, who was entitled to that right in Locke's time and most importantly, how our contemporary experience informs how we read the works of the great political philosophers. It was an amazing class, and a very eye-opening experience form.
I reexamined some of my strongest beliefs about politics and began to seriously reconsider my position on certain topics because the professor presented such a lively history of the topic and provided insight on the way the topic was framed.
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