TY - JOUR
T1 - Train Wrecks: 3M National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning and Generative Responses from Colossal Failures
AU - Strean, William B.
AU - Maher, Patrick T.
AU - Brooks, Kim
N1 - William B Strean, Patrick T Maher & Kim Brooks, "Train Wrecks: 3M National Teaching Fellows Explore Creating Learning and Generative Responses from Colossal Failures" (2019) 12 Collected Essays on Learning & Teaching 119.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - We all fail. We also like to look good and avoid looking bad. So, even though we know that taking risks and trying new approaches are important for enhancing our teaching and students’ learning (Strean, 2017), we rarely talk about our failures. Our claim in this paper is that our insecurities create a substantial barrier to improving and enriching our teaching practices. If we do not find time to take big risks, and then to explore and critically reflect on failures that result sometimes from those risks, we lose out on the chance to become better teachers; more fundamentally, we deprive our students of the chance to have extraordinary opportunities to learn.
AB - We all fail. We also like to look good and avoid looking bad. So, even though we know that taking risks and trying new approaches are important for enhancing our teaching and students’ learning (Strean, 2017), we rarely talk about our failures. Our claim in this paper is that our insecurities create a substantial barrier to improving and enriching our teaching practices. If we do not find time to take big risks, and then to explore and critically reflect on failures that result sometimes from those risks, we lose out on the chance to become better teachers; more fundamentally, we deprive our students of the chance to have extraordinary opportunities to learn.
KW - Law School
KW - Law Professors
KW - Teaching Practices
UR - https://digitalcommons.schulichlaw.dal.ca/scholarly_works/1619
M3 - Article
JO - Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
JF - Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
ER -