I knew something good was going to come out of our CIMP-troubles. The same students now had to write a paper for the course SPA (sociology, pedagogy and andragogy). And the papers were much better! I hope some things fell into place for these students! Although it may not have been the best and fastest route to success, students received their destination. And I think that’s what counts. Keep up the good work!
This year we changed some things in Atelier 1, to see whether student’s report in Atelier 2 would be better. I only see student reports of the second phase in Atelier 2, but indeed, compared to last year, these reports were better!
Is there nothing to nag about then? Sure, I’m a teacher, I always have something to nag about!
What I missed in the Atelier 2 reports is students going beyond the superficial design literature. Sure, I read about Smith and Regan, the ADDIE model, Mayer’s rules…..But unfortunately none of the students went into the deep and found additional literature. Perhaps I can think of a way to achieve this next year.
And talking about learning curves….. I had two occasions last weeks where I doubted between failing students and having them re-do some work, or passing them and pointing out the things they should really work on for next time. I doubted, read the work again, took the whole process into account again and concluded that they would not learn more by re-doing their work. So, I decided to have a short talk with the students instead. It saved me and the students work, and we both learned from the talks. More than we would have from re-writing and re-grading the work….
Does this make me a soft teacher? I don’t think so, do you?
Next blog will be about the difference between students’ complaints (including my own when I was a student here) and teachers’ point of view. Since I have been on both sides, I’m looking forward to analyzing this!
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A visible learning curve!
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