Educational Psychology (every spring)
Education Independent Study Projects
I view my role as a professor to be a facilitator of your learning, a guide, a curator of materials, and an advocate. I am intentional about being community centered, learner centered, knowledge centered, and assessment centered. I will respect you as a whole human being which includes respecting who you are, the strengths you bring to our community of learners, and your time. It is my intention to curate materials and facilitate learning activities that respect gender, sexuality, disability, age, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, race, and culture. Your engagement and suggestions for improvement are essential to our cultivation of an inclusive classroom community.
My aspiration is that what you can say or do on the final day of our class demonstrates a depth of understanding about adolescents and learning that far exceeds what you can say or do on our first day of class. I have some responsibility for that deepened understanding, partly it falls on your classmates, but mostly that responsibility falls to you.
“It has been said that the highest learning comes in four parts: One part is learned from teachers; another part from fellow students; a third part from self-study and practice; and the final part comes mysteriously, silently, in the due course of time.” (Ganga White)
