What Makes Great Teaching?

Teaching strategies that are empowering and flexible can greatly help students develop into engaged learners. Below I have listed five strategies that I encountered this semester that worked for me.

My Top 5

• Blogging with other educators 
• Selecting Golden Lines to determine the importance
• 3-2-1 Research Reports
• Self-Assessment
• Literature Reading and Discussion

Why these strategies were effective for me: 

I liked writing my blog and responding to other people’s blogs. It was a great way to think critically about the modules and to also see what other people got from them. Selecting Golden Lines was an interesting task. I had never done that before but I liked picking one line from a reading that stood out to me. I thought it was a good way to dive deeper into the meaning of the story. The 3-2-1 research report was a good way to further comprehend the information from the readings. I liked the flexibility in getting to choose which 3-2-1 we did. I liked doing the self-assessment because it pushes you to think about what you did right and what you need to fix in the future. It was a good way to look introspectively and can help produce better work in the future. I am an avid reader so I really enjoyed the literature readings. I liked the literature discussions as well because it is nice to hear other people’s perspectives of the readings.