Questions raised on ALTLEARN:
How do we help instructors transform their classrooms into student learning communities?
Have you done it, and what do you have to offer as a mentor?
If we are trying to transform our face to face classrooms and writing centers into collaborative learning spaces, how do we go about training new instructors (and retraining entrenched instructors/tutors) in these new pedagogies?Johannes Cronje: My own students have created answers to these questions...
Nick Carbone: It takes some teachers 3 or 4 academic years of experimenting, trying, and so on to shift pedagogies ...
Daphne Desser: Make new teachers aware of the collaborative practices that are possible ...
Greg Beatty: I would start with training teachers in collaboration in the traditional classroom ...
Will Hochman: Writing teachers must write ...
Ben Reynolds: What admins can do for students is hire the right instructors ...
Fred Kemp: Create successful models of such collaborative spaces ...