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Introduction to Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching
Submitted by alesnick on Mon, 05/04/2009 - 8:10pmThis student-authored handbook is the product of a Bryn Mawr College Education course entitled “Empowering Learners: Theory and Practice of Extra-Classroom Teaching” (Table of Contents), created by Alice Lesnick and Jody Cohen (with support from the Math Science Partnership of Greater Philadelphia) and taught by Alice Lesnick (www.brynmawr.edu/education). As a Praxis course (www.brynmawr.edu/praxis) at Bryn Mawr, the course included a substantial field component in which each student engaged in and reflected on a form of
Teaching on a Triangle
Submitted by alesnick on Fri, 10/30/2009 - 10:07pmIn my senior seminar last Monday, we thought together about midcourse feedback. Students asked me to talk more about the ideas that link and unify the various course topics (social justice education, oral history and other forms of qualitative research, psychoanalytic theories of communication and learning, and what it means to listen, to help, to teach and learn when learning depends on conflict, struggle, and difficulty).
What is the Teaching and Learning Initiative at Bryn Mawr College?
Submitted by alesnick on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 10:02ama case study of a campus initiative to build relationships and dialogues about teaching and learning among faculty, staff and students (www.brynmawr.edu/tli).
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Titagya - Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program Partnership: Ideas, Field Notes, Linkages
Submitted by alesnick on Fri, 10/23/2009 - 11:26amThis web page is designed as a place to collect and generate ideas, experiences, and connections useful to developing a partnership between the Titagya program to build preschools and kindergartens in Northern Ghana and the Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education Program, at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges, outside of Philadelphia Pennsylvania. To begin, the partnership is focusing on exploring cross-cultural curriculum development, with a focus on the themes of conflict resolution and the role of creativity, interaction, and play in learning.
Bryn Mawr/Haverford Education students are invited to post notes and reflections based on field work they are doing with young learners. These will be found in the discussion forum below.
One Student and his Silence in the Classroom
Submitted by alesnick on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 1:22pmLaKesha Preston-Roberts
One Student and his Silence in the Classroom
(Student) “What I need a tutor for? I already know this stuff. Why can’t I just go sit in class?”
Empowering Teaching Assistant by Expanding Duties and Responsibilities
Submitted by alesnick on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 1:14pmJoanne Townsend
Taking the Time
Submitted by alesnick on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 1:13pmBecky Strattan
A CHILD ON ONE SIDE...The thing that struck me most about Peter was his curiosity. Each of the twenty or so first graders I worked with engaged me and challenged me in a different way, but Peter was unique in his unfailing ability to amaze me.
(Formerly) Traditional Students in the Revolutionary System
Submitted by alesnick on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 1:11pmSky Stegall
Building relationships with, and learning from, classroom teachers
Submitted by alesnick on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 1:10pmEmily Schneider-Krzys
Adult Learners: The Promises of Voluntary Education
Submitted by alesnick on Thu, 08/20/2009 - 1:08pmAmie Claire Raymond
