Professor of English at Howard Community College. #TempleMade. Interested in #SDGs, #pedagogy, #ungrading, and #OER. Tweets reflect…yada, yada, yada. he/him/his
Dec 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 7 min read
This 🧵is for me. This 🧵is for me when I need a dose of self-care, when I feel overwhelmed that I don't have the answers about student motivation, or when I can't see the good that I'm doing. This 🧵 is about my students' final self-assessments in an #ungrading comp course. 1/
Q: Did you learn anything unexpected (like an "aha" moment)? Did you expect to learn something that you didn’t learn? Did you change your mind about anything when it comes to writing and English classes? 2/
Jul 21, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🧵I've been finally able to process and ruminate over Ss Final Self-Assessments in an intense 5-week summer comp. course that employs a *labor reflex* approach to #ungrading. Some lessons & observations:
✅Students are intrinsically motivated to learn (and even "unlearn"). 1/
✅ Reflective practice is critical for self-assessment and for locating areas for improvement.
✅ But Ss need time and practice to reflect fully & deeply.
✅ Ss possess more important and stronger goals for learning than can ever be established in the syllabus *outcomes*. 2/
Dec 8, 2020 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
"Trust the student" is something that @Jessifer continuously reminds those us #ungrading. In the past, I've nodded my head in intellectual assent of this truth. Of course-- it sounds sane! But it wasn't until this semester that it really resonated with me . . . #UngradingSlowChat
And I think it's related to the "power" dynamic involved in so many of our educational experiences. Remember the profs who taught via the pedagogy of confrontation, the adversarial power struggle? . . . As if learning was a chess game to outwit the competition.
Dec 7, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
#UngradingSlowChat --Today finds me extremely thankful for everything #ungrading! This morning, I've been reading my students' final Labor Journal Reflections where I ask them to mindfully (& compassionately) describe their labor in my course. I'm all for #ungrading research,...
but I'm more of a praxis person--cool with theory, but love to see boots-on-the-ground evidence. I've gotten into heated arguments about "quality" and "rigor" but I always return to "Ask the students!" The #ungrading reflections . . .
Nov 13, 2020 • 60 tweets • 14 min read
THREAD -- I've recently asked my freshman composition students to try their hand at composing six-word compositions. I've been thoroughly impressed! #sixwordstory#sixwordquote#sixwordcomposition
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