Written Conversations
Partner_____________
When you give back an assessment, a student
raises his hand and challenges your grading.
Other students quickly agree. What issues does
the scenario raise? What are your next steps?
How might you avoid such confrontations in
the future?
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You introduce a “hot button” issue in your
classroom and bitter arguments break out and
you are accused of propagandizing your
students. What issues does the scenario raise?
How might you diffuse the situation and turn it
into a “teaching moment”?
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A student tells you that one of her instructors
made a comment in class that she perceived as
racist and insensitive. The student says that she
does not feel welcomed at NorQuest. What issues
does the scenario raise? What could you do in this
situation? What might be the fallout from your
response?
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Partner_____________
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You are have just finished marking an
assessment. You inform the department chair
that the mean grade is 80. The chair asks you
to lower the grades 10 percent. How do you
respond? What issues does this scenario raise?
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A student who speaks knowledgeably in class
fails your first exam. The student says that
she/he blanks out during exam situations. Is
this your problem? What might you do in such
a circumstance?
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A student in your class is struggling with
some serious personal issues and asks
you to meet with her/him off campus.
Should you? What are the risks?
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During class, several students converse
among themselves in a language that
you don’t understand and begin to
laugh. What issues does this scenario
raise? What do you do?
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If students come to us from strong, healthy
functioning families, it makes our job easier. If
they do not come to us from strong, healthy,
functioning families, it makes our job more
important.
-Barbara Coloroso
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The test of a good teacher is not how many
questions he can ask his pupils that they will
answer readily, but how many questions he
inspires them to ask him which he finds it hard
to answer.
-Alice Wellington
Rollins
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If we teach today’s students as we
taught yesterday’s, we rob them of
tomorrow.
-John Dewey
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Never do anything for a student that he is
capable of doing for himself. If you do you,
you’ll make him an educational cripple…a
pedagogical paraplegic.
-Howard Hendricks
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Education is not to reform students or amuse
them or to make them expert technicians. It is
to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons,
inflame their intellects, teach them to think
straight, if possible.
—Robert M. Hutchins
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As adults, when we think back to our years in
school, we remember teachers, not
instructional methods and techniques. We
remember the teachers who saw something
special in us and made a connection…
-John Blaydes
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 Written Conversations
Today society asks more of educators than ever
before. We are expected to be social workers,
computer experts, researchers, mediators, business
partners, team members, and dependency
counselors. We are expected to advocate for those
on the margins of our society who face adversity
dues to gender, race, economic circumstance and
migration. It is a tall task.
Name ____________
Partner_____________
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