Double Reflection

The title of this post may seem a little peculiar, but while trying to come up with a title I realized there is no good way to use “reflection” twice in a five word title, so I settled for the vaguer but easier to say: “Double Reflection.”

So, on to this semester’s Reflection Workshop! It was a couple of weeks ago now, on October 22. If you weren’t able to make it, do not think that you were the only one, there was only a small group of us there. An unfortunate, but inevitable, outcome of midterm season.

Despite our small numbers, the workshop was incredibly instructive and insightful. It was given by Megan Webster (a PhD candidate in the Department of Integrated Studies in Education) and focused on how to help students make sense of their own thinking. I thought that this was a great topic to address in a workshop because understanding how people other than ourselves think is incredibly difficult, but utterly essential to any kind of teaching. Continue reading