Carrie ShanafeltSep 26, 2023

When high school teachers are asked by their former students to evaluate the curriculum of their college courses, does it ever occur to them that they could just not give an opinion? What is it that empowers them to feel so confident proclaiming that their college professors are "not teaching college-level texts"? Do they think we're working from a standardized list of difficulty?

Several semesters in a row now, some HS teacher has told my student my class is "basically grad school."

Show threadCarrie ShanafeltSep 26, 2023
One of the disagreements I've consistently had with EdD colleagues is that they feel certain that the games and memorization tricks they use for elementary school teaching are "pedagogy" and that anything else is "not pedagogy" rather than "advanced pedagogy." But it's also really concerning that students are being told by their beloved mentors that our reading and assignments are too hard for them to do. They aren't! I promise! I've been doing this a long time! Let them try to do it!
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Last semester, I had simplified a first-year-level research assignment down to some core tasks, because students were struggling just to do the literal searching part, so we focused on that--just distinguishing peer-reviewed articles from blogs and student papers and homework helpers. That was the assignment that a student's former HS teacher said was "PhD-level research methods" and "totally inappropriate for undergraduate study." Thanks! It's so neat working together to help this student!
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Show threadSarah FackrellSep 26, 2023
@carrideen What? 🤦🏻‍♀️
Show threadThe Witch of Crow BriarSep 26, 2023
@carrideen 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ you're both having an impact on their future!
Show threadPkrebsSep 26, 2023
@carrideen If you’re in language, lit, or culture, this free online course can help with that: https://www.mla.org/Publications/MLA-International-Bibliography/Free-Online-Course
Understanding the MLA International Bibliography: A Free...

The MLA has developed an online course to teach students how to use the MLA International Bibliography for college-level research. Each of the five units in the course presents a lesson, followed by progression questions to reinforce the lesson through...

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