Teaching Confrontationally?
One of our most difficult tasks as teachers is confronting our students, challenging their assumptions with new ideas, pushing them to improve their skills, sometimes even correcting inappropriate behavior. These are necessary tasks, essential to a college education, yet most of us would prefer to avoid anything that might be seen as confrontational. This year's series of development workshops will offer encouragement for teaching confrontationally. We will share ideas with colleagues on how we can effectively improve our own attitudes and abilities while we sharpen our students, their study and research skills, their ideas and opinions, and their understanding of their responsibilities as students, young adults, and Christians. While many of the events listed here are focused on this theme, not all events throughout 2007-2008 will share that focus. Consequently, "Teaching Confrontationally" events will be listed with "funnel" logo (see above). [Sponsored by: The Teaching Fellows, the Office for Multicultural Affairs, the Hekman Library, the Dean for Research and Scholarship, and CIT's Teaching and Learning Team.] |
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