Approach?? I am constantly assessing my students in my classes: with every utterance from my students, I am assessing what they are saying, how they are saying it, their strengths, weaknesses, application of what we have focused on up to that point in the course, what they understand, what they don’t understand based on questions …
July 2014 archive
Jul 18
Are we really engaging our learners, or are they here for the doors it may open?
I have posted late, and for that I apologize. It appears my self directed learning has led me to enroll in a post masters certificate at Emory which is kicking my posterior in terms of time, commitment, and assimilation of new information in order to expand my NP scope of practice from age 12 instead …
Jul 18
Measuring how students become like their teachers
“Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers and sisters, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.” Epistle of James 3:1-2. Years ago, I taught religion Union College, small, church- related college in Kentucky. We had about a dozen students who majored or minored in religion, and since …
Jul 17
Heutagogical Learning: Engaged Learned
After reading the article on self-evaluated and self-directed heutagogical learning by Blaschke (2012), and reading the feedback on how to engage students online from colleagues reviewing my syllabus draft, I realized I needed to focus my blog this week on learner-centered learning and assessment. I also was encouraged to try this in light of work …
Jul 17
Assessment in 5 easy steps
No I don’t really know how to do assessment in 5 easy steps. Just trying to think of an enticing headline. Sorry to disappoint. But now that I have your attention…. As an English instructor teaching composition, I would give very elaborate feedback on each writing assignment. Then I was always surprised when I met …
Jul 16
Learning Centered Strategies – for older professional students
Learning Centered Assessment Becoming a reflective practitioner is a course objective and learning goal for the DMin class that immediately precedes mine. I hope to build on it in my course, so I state one of my course goals as simply to “enhance students’ self-awareness as reflective practitioners.” This will involve a series of …
Jul 16
L. Dee Fink, Creating Significant Learning Experiences, and what’s also going on in the lives of our students
Assessment and integration…. In Creating Significant Learning Experiences (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass), L. Dee Fink focuses on integration in course design and assessment. He’s on board with the triangles we see appearing in the work of our assigned authors linking (1) learning goals to (2) teaching/learning activities to (3) feedback and assessment, however he contributes a …
Jul 16
Self-directed Heutagogical Learning
I loved the article on self-directed heutagogical learning. I feel like my online course has found a home. It of course will be a challenge. The concept is still so new and unknown that my computer is telling me it is misspelled. In my course, I am seeking to develop self-motivated ministers to do acts …
Jul 16
Carol Dweck’s emphasis on growth and direct observation
Carol Dweck “How Not to Talk to Your Children: The Inverse Power of Praise” New York Magazine. February 19. 2007 http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/ “Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child’s control, and …
Jul 16
Incorporating student self-assessment
I like the idea presented in “Student Self-Evaluation: What Research Says and What Practice Shows” (by Rolheiser and Ross), that students can find increased motivation and understanding when they are taught to assess their own progress. The authors qualify this by saying that students must have known standards against which to compare their work, and …
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