"Responding to Student Writing: Transparency, Modeling, and Empathy," by Sue Ann Cairns, Professor of English at Kwantlen University College (BC, Canada), describes a successful approach to modeling the behaviors for our students that we expect from them on personal and academic levels. She proposes that "becoming students again" allows us to engage in deeper listening practices and to view students' forays into writing a rhetorical, psychological, and even spiritual challenge.
Richard Degus
Executive Assistant to the President
03/16/2005 |