Let us talk about design teaching and learning. I want to hear your success or horror stories. Write me something interesting and full of honesty and I will consider in publishing it in my next magazine/graphic novel. Students also tell me about your perceptions and thoughts on learning! Let’s share! Send me an email if interested and possibly a 100 word proposal.

Cheers,
Roberto

Quite often, I discuss issues that surround poor teaching practices and the institutional forces that make teachers’ environments difficult. What I don’t usually discuss are the great teachers out there and their practices that help our students. Well, actually I do discuss that issue although often part as a reference for my complaining. Recently, I have been observing the practices of a few teachers in my college and found that they have really shaped the students’ learning in a strong manner. It is not how they write their lesson plans or curricula nor their creative projects that inspire the students but their expression and communication with students in class. We tend to forget how important this ‘expression’ and connection is to students no matter how great you schedule teaching and learning activities within a lesson. This connection, feedback and expression becomes the identifier of the teacher and perhaps one of the crucial evaluative factors in the minds of students. I am not talking about sympathetic or empathetic values but the successful ability to communicate verbally with students and demonstrated energy expressed during the lesson. This could be time for me to start researching students perceptions and conceptions of the teaching environment. Another graphic novel?