From Inclusion to Equity: Pedagogies that Close Achievement Gaps
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. You’re committed to equity and inclusion. You’ve been educating yourself about how higher
This article is featured in the resource guide, Effective Online Teaching Strategies. You’re committed to equity and inclusion. You’ve been educating yourself about how higher
The Winter/Spring 2016 issue of Peer Review highlights the powerful impact ‘transparency’ can have on learning for all students. One aspect of transparency is making obvious the intellectual practices involved in completing and evaluating a learning task. But making these processes visible for students is more easily said than done; we are experts in our fields for the very reasons that our thinking and evaluating are automatic and subconscious. It’s hard to describe exactly what we do intellectually when we synthesize or integrate, critique, or create. Similarly, it’s difficult to articulate the differences between an assignment we score as an A and one to which we give a B. Thus, a challenge in achieving transparency is developing a deep awareness of our own processes. Only then can we explicitly teach those thinking processes.
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