I am taking a course from the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) titled “Effective Teaching Practices”. I love learning, even in a heavily scaffolded, hierarchically organized online courses like this. But I do tire. I tire of the way in which the structure of the course keeps us from creating a real community.
We had a prompt this past week that tipped me over the edge from being a good, strategic ‘responder’ into an improvisational gadfly. Fancy that. This was the prompt:
Do you find it more difficult to manage dominant talkers or to encourage quieter students? What strategies have you found to be successful?
Here was my response:
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A Captcha poem for you:
whaddaya mean? she scolds
of course you know
it’s when you shore somethin’ up,
reinforce it
ya know, like the sandbags on the river bank?
kids these days!
how can you not know embank?
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Captain Chuh says, “Embanken and embiggen.” Yes, kids these days. LOL.