Are School Systems and Curriculum Units Failing to Promote Learning that is...
by Elizabeth KoelmelA strong paper on a prevalent trend throughout schools: many students learn to get the passing grade. How can the learning process be empowered to signify more than just grades?...
View ArticleThe Ultimate Cross-Cultural Mentoring Partnership Challenge
by Grace Kung "In this section of the Handbook, I will explore the inner conflict student mentors may face when working with adult learners. This chapter offers student mentors a suggested...
View ArticleCorrupting Rationality: Exposing Emotions in Our Language
Margo SchallThis essay, which is written with emotion, talks about employing emotion in education - a step which needs to be done in order to improve teaching and learning. read more
View ArticleApproach and Attitude: Ideas Behind Being an Impactful Mentor
Alison CrawfordThis essay talks about ideas for improvement as a mentor using as example the Empowering Learners Partnerships.read more
View ArticleThe Gap Between the Real World and the Academic World
David Garcia-Pedrosa A strong essay on the matter of gaining real world experience through academia. read more
View ArticleThe Worst-Case Scenario Handbook: Mentor's Edition
Sandra Gandarez and Julia Vance The following chapter consists of excerpts from students working as mentors discussing issues they faced in their unique placements. A variety of solutions are...
View ArticleExtra-Classroom Teachers As Role Models
Samantha MartinezChildren…are in need of role models, and take them from all areas that are close at hand, whether mass media, parents, or their teachers.Daniel Rose read more
View ArticleOne Student and his Silence in the Classroom
LaKesha Preston-Roberts A student talks about her experience in tutoring algebra to a freshman in high school.read more
View ArticleCultures of ability
"Culture as Disability," a 1995 essay by Ray McDermott and Hervé Varenne has been on my mind for more than a decade. In it, McDermott and Varenne argue compellingly (for me at least) that human...
View ArticleFostering Student Learning through Creativity
Mary Encabo This essay looks at the importance of creativity in the process of learning.read more
View ArticleA Collaborative Outline for the Bi-Co Teaching Assistant (TA) Handbook
Empowering Learners: Spring 2010Field Group Project Part 4:Sarah Choyke, Candace LaCrosse,Linnea Segan, and Alexandra Funk As the title suggests, this handbook is about teaching assistantship at Bryn...
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Applying for Success
Hallie GarrisonEmpowering Learners As the subtitle of this essay says, "Can college students effectively navigate the intricacies of mentoring high-risk youth? read more
View ArticleThe Teaching & Learning Initiative: Nepali Style
Hello beautiful Serendip world! My name is Briana Bellamy, I'm a BMC alum '11. Recently, I returned from an incredible year of living in Nepal, working on a project funded by the Davis Projects for...
View ArticleHalf the Sky
Hey everybody, I don't really know if this has any place in this Ecological Imaginings class, but maybe if we can imagine the preservation of women to be a form of ecology, not unlike the preservation...
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Becoming Miss A
I knew this day would come some daysince it is the culture here to call one’s teacher by her last name.But, I have a long way to go before I become a teacherI honestly don’t think I can ever be a...
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