Welcome to summer 2021! What are you planning to do this summer? I am spending time with my family and friends. Looking for new opportunities and adventures. This includes looking at buying my first house. I will keep you updated on my summer travels and house hunting adventure.
The comment that caught my attention from Susan Cain’s Ted Talk was that the “classrooms are designed for extroverts” (Cain, 2012) with pod seating and group projects. This brought back memories of my first grade class room, with four desks put together and in sixth grade the desks were in a big circle. I have lots of experience with group work from completing my accounting designation…
The comment that caught my attention from the second assigned reading of Student Engagement Techniques was from chapter 6, “From Theory to Practice”. The quote is “[y]ou have to reach out to students. You can’t wait for them to reach out to you. The good students always have and always will reach out, but the struggling students don’t know how to make the first move.”…
How to do I get my students engaged in the lessons? What is student engagement? In her book What Does Student Engagement Mean. In her book Student Engagement Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty, Elizabeth Barkley defines “[s]tudent engagement [as] the product of motivation and active learning. It is a product rather than a sum because it will not occur if either element is missing.” (Barkley, 2009)…
The theory of double-loop learning was developed by Chris Argyris and Donald Schon in the late 1970s. Their focus was on improving organizational learning to help companies improve their communication, processes and decision making (Wheeler, 2018). Argyris wrote in 1977 that double-loop learning works for “…educators at all levels of education…” not just business (Argyris, 1977). The following is the example used to explain double-loop…
