Thu, August 22, 2013 9:15 AM - 11:45 AM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Free - Please Register. How does focusing on learning change our thinking about teaching and our roles as teachers? If our role is to teach in ways that facilitate our students' learning, what does this role entail that is different from how we may have taught in the past? Why is it often perceived as less comfortable to teach in this way, and more challenging to do well? Join us to explore how roles and responsibilities change when we act as facilitative teachers, and how we can promote more and better learning by successfully implementing more facilitative approaches to our teaching.
Good teaching is a journey rather than a destination. It's not like a subway stop where, once you are there, you can cease moving forward … Inertia is an insidiously powerful negative force in teaching – the urge to keep doing things the way we've done them for years. It's a bit like belonging to the pedagogical equivalent of Alcoholics Anonymous: there's always a poor teacher in us waiting to emerge. We have to resist the temptation to stay as we are, to rest at the bus stop. - Flachman, 1994
Location: Irving K Barber Learning Centre - Seminar Room 2.22A