Event Title
Empowering the college student through transparency in classroom pedagogy
Location
Dolan School of Business
Start Date
30-5-2014 1:00 PM
End Date
30-5-2014 2:00 PM
Session Type
Interactive Session
Description
As the study of liberal arts, and college education, come under attack in the twenty-first century, we scramble to add new aspects to our curriculum to remain relevant to contemporary demands. In the liberal arts, and college teaching in general, professors carefully craft the class session to weave the invisible background workings of a course to provide the best possible learning experience for students.
In the face of this crisis of relevance, the classroom space itself is an ideal place to empower students by making visible the behind the scenes work that we do in the classroom. By making this work visible we are empowering liberal arts students with the language necessary to understand their active role in the classroom. In this session I will discuss the classroom as a space to empower students to better understand what it is they do in the liberal arts classroom, while also sharing with students the language that they will need to talk about their relevant and transferable college experiences.
Topic Designation
Teaching & Learning
Presenter Bio(s)
Michelle Leigh Farrell
Assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
Fairfield University
Empowering the college student through transparency in classroom pedagogy
Dolan School of Business
As the study of liberal arts, and college education, come under attack in the twenty-first century, we scramble to add new aspects to our curriculum to remain relevant to contemporary demands. In the liberal arts, and college teaching in general, professors carefully craft the class session to weave the invisible background workings of a course to provide the best possible learning experience for students.
In the face of this crisis of relevance, the classroom space itself is an ideal place to empower students by making visible the behind the scenes work that we do in the classroom. By making this work visible we are empowering liberal arts students with the language necessary to understand their active role in the classroom. In this session I will discuss the classroom as a space to empower students to better understand what it is they do in the liberal arts classroom, while also sharing with students the language that they will need to talk about their relevant and transferable college experiences.