Education

To be effective instructors, we need to find ways to check in with our students. This feedback can guide us to being more efficient and providing a better experience for our students.

What I learned from this chapter of Brookfield’s book is that we can’t get too comfortable and need to adopt a constant feedback loop with our students in order to know that we are effective instructors.

In such a cauldron of difference, there will be few standardized practices that help students across the board learn essential skills or knowledge. An approach that one student finds particularly useful or congenial may well be unsettling and confusing to the student sitting next to them.

Stephen D. Brockfield

I didn’t always realize it but throughout my life over many different careers, I have sought to share knowledge and teach others what I know.

To design authentic evaluation for both summative and formative assessments it is important not to fall into the “Four Traps of Evaluation”