{"id":103,"date":"2013-05-11T15:30:33","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/?p=103"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:30:33","slug":"meeting-minutes-102512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/2013\/05\/11\/meeting-minutes-102512\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting minutes 10\/25\/12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Thai Rak Thai<br \/>\nIn Attendance: Kathryn Meier, Jennifer Cutsforth, Tara Fay, Jeremy Sepinsky<\/p>\n<p><strong>Agenda:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/2013\/05\/11\/critical-incident-questionnaires-ciqs\/\" title=\"Critical Incident Questionnaires (CIQs)\">Critical Incident Questionnaires (CIQs)<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Global Environment History course; exploring new pedagogies<\/li>\n<li>Website\/Blog<\/li>\n<li>Preliminary discussion to answer the question \u201cWhat is a good teacher?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>Website\/Blog<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Background:<\/em> In our proposal for funding, we stated that we would try to make a website\/blog where we can discuss and disseminate novel pedagogies with a wider audience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion:<\/em><br \/>\nIR is in the process of creating a wordpress server for our campus. \u00a0This is a common blog creating application. \u00a0Those present thought this would make a good public\/semi-private outlet for our group.  Jeremy is going to explore what we would need to do to get a page for our group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global Environment History course; exploring new pedagogies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Background:<\/em> Last year, our cohort brought in Ben Cohen to the university to talk about some novel pedagogies that he used in the classroom. \u00a0One really interesting project involved the students in the class writing a book about a certain topic. \u00a0Katy is designing a course in a similar vein, where the students will collaborate to write a book on \u201cGlobal Environmental History\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The major worry about classes like this is having students are willing to participate. \u00a0This is not a traditional educational experience, and past experience at The University of Scranton has shown us that our students tend to be very reticent to \u201cnew\u201d things.<\/li>\n<li>This reticence may be \u201ccontext dependent\u201d as they have little problems doing extra-curricular work in classes where a large \u201cservice learning\u201d component is expected.<\/li>\n<li>One possible way to mitigate problems like this might be to deliver the expectations before the students even sign up to the class. \u00a0This can be done during the advertising for the course (a special topics where there is no online course description).<\/li>\n<li>We discussed a few advertising techniques for this class, including a short video introduction that can be posted online (facebook, etc.).\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Preliminary discussion to answer the question \u201cWhat is a good teacher?\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Background:<\/em> Katy sent around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/10\/why-kids-should-grade-teachers\/309088\/#\">this<\/a> article from the Atlantic on what it means to be a good teacher. <\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion:<\/em><br \/>\nWhile we, of course, came up with no answers, there were a number of good questions brought up:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Would it be possible for our group to observe each other more thoroughly, and attempt to make a list of \u201cgood habits\u201d that we see in each other?<\/li>\n<li>Each of us has a very different \u201cclassroom culture\u201d. \u00a0What works in one class may not work in another. \u00a0Will that hamper the way the \u201cgood habits\u201d can be used?<\/li>\n<li>If, as the Atlantic article suggests, mutual respect and understanding is important for learning, what happens when the personalities of the instructor and student clash? \u00a0Should they find another class? \u00a0What happens if they can\u2019t due to scheduling?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location: Thai Rak Thai In Attendance: Kathryn Meier, Jennifer Cutsforth, Tara Fay, Jeremy Sepinsky Agenda: Critical Incident Questionnaires (CIQs) Global Environment History course; exploring new pedagogies Website\/Blog Preliminary discussion to answer the question \u201cWhat is a good teacher?\u201d Website\/Blog Background: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/2013\/05\/11\/meeting-minutes-102512\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[43,53,52,54],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes","tag-ciq","tag-good-teaching","tag-new-course","tag-website"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}