Title:
Value of Education/Value of Learning
Convener:
Unknown
Participants:
Spring Prynn
June Fike
Michelle
Christi
Linda
Melissa
Jeanne Fitzgerald
Vanessa
Ron Ross
Jeanne
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Discussion:
- Seeing our efforts of teaching as an outcome or product -- instead of working on a quality process.
- Accept and expect 'failure' as part of learning -- process not perfection.
- What can we do to make all experiences at PC promotelearning?
- Grades and learning are incompatible! We need to replace grades/GPA with a meaningful evaluation system.
- Why are we HERE?
- What is the 'value' (??$$) of an education?
- If the organizationis 'learning centered' then do we see everyone (emp. too) aslearners?
- Why are students here? What difference is it that educators wish to convey? Since this is a community college are students here to learn or as a stepping stone to a career? Are the two incompatible? What is the value of life-long learning?
- At different points in our lives we need different kinds of education. When students are able to apply learning to real life it sticks with them longer. We need to keep our doors wide open; jobs are changing rapidly and the average person now is expected to have 5-7 jobs in his/her lifetime. Hence, a variety of skills are necessary. Specialization is becoming a rarity. We need to teach students how to learn.
- Is the value of education in teaching others how to think for themselves? Is the student's education content based or learning based? What are the student's priorities in education? Is it empathy, compassion, or fact-filling?
- What do the faculty do to prove that their students are really learning what is taught to them? One way is to get the students more involved and have them teach their peers.
- Is it important for you to have a good instructor to teach the class? In some ways it makes all the difference in the world to have someone else to help you through the world in one way another.
- Does it make a difference if the instructor teaches you by lectures or by hands on orientation? Well the instructor tries different ways to help the students benefit the most from it, and by how much they love their job of willing to help society through life.
- Is it important in life for grades to be a part of our everyday actions? In a way it would give you a visual of how well you're doing. The skills that are taught to you, you must be able to relay those skills on in real life. If you can't perform these tasks in life then you weren't really learning what was taught to you.
Open Space Forum - 10.7.98 - Phoenix College
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