Teacher-Student-Subject interactions (schema in development)
Peter Taylor
Student
- reflects & develops self
- digests experience of past projects
- looks towards future projects
- completes self-evaluations
- identifies & uses personal learning/writing preferences
- moves towards inner-directedness a/a other/authority-directedness [note]
- gives attention to inter-dependency
- progresses on individual project
- plans & mobilizes resources
- uses strategic planning processes
- uses other tools, e.g., mapping, freewriting
- supports others
- helps shape collective project
Collective project
= "course" or "subject"
+ supporting each other to maximum yield, i.e., the best work in the circumstances
Teacher
- establishes some parameters
- assessment & grading system [note]
- course is a collective project in addition to individual projects
- core case studies & activities
- proposes ideal sequence to final paper/ report/ product
- expectations
- framing, e.g., courses with PT are high in abstract conceptualization
- provides resources from experience
- case studies [note]
- critical heuristics/ angles of illumination [note]
- other tools, e.g.,
- writing
- freewriting
- direct writing
- sharing & responding
- mapping
- binders
- newspaper clippings
- assignments of previous students
- previous reports
- websites
- bibliographic suggestions, website addresses & contacts
- reads & listens, i.e., is an audience
- models
- critical thinking
- reciprocal animation
- heterogeneous re/construction
- learning, listening, facilitating, providing resources
- learns, i.e, is a student also
- current issues include...
- on-going issues include....
- conducts course evaluations that are useful for learning
- facilitates
- switches hats from teacher role
to allow student insights to emerge & synergize
last updated 24 june 1998
Endnotes
"a chasm between a world others had built for him and his own not yet formed. It is this gap which mentors often serve to bridge." Common Fire, p. 89.
Example of assessment scheme from a workshop research course
"Sense-making" to contextualize or to respond to written and spoken work
Brief reasons for experiencing/ experimenting with a structured planning process in a seminar course
Basic propositions of the ICA workshop process