{"id":9475,"date":"2012-03-15t08:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-03-15t14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/?p=9475"},"modified":"2013-12-30t16:31:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-30t21:31:09","slug":"alternatives-to-teaching-generically-a-plenary-north-of-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/2012\/03\/alternatives-to-teaching-generically-a-plenary-north-of-the-border\/","title":{"rendered":"alternatives to generic teaching: a plenary north of the border"},"content":{"rendered":"

on february 25, cft assistant director nancy chick<\/a> presented a plenary session,\u00a0“exploring signature pedagogies:\"\"<\/a> approaches to engaging your students and your discipline<\/strong>,”\u00a0at the 2012 spring conference of the federation of post-secondary educators of british columbia. the fpse is organization of unionized faculty in british columbia’s institutions of higher education. \u00a0this year’s conference, held in vancouver, bc, was focused on the increasing complexity and diversity of institutions and students, calling for more intentional and thoughtful approaches to students’ learning experiences, according to fpse president cindy oliver.<\/p>\n

in nancy’s plenary, she drew on examples from the audience to discuss the often generic, disengaged, and forgettable classroom experiences faculty recall from when they were students and now as they are the teachers. \u00a0as a way of changing this pattern, she then introduced the notion of “signature pedagogies” (shulman, 2005), or ways of teaching that “disclose important information about the personality of a disciplinary field\u2014its values, knowledge, and manner of thinking\u2014almost, perhaps, its total world view\u201d\u00a0(calder, 2006). \u00a0she also shared examples of both approaches to teaching\u2014the generic and the signature\u2014from two books she’s co-edited,\u00a0exploring signature pedagogies: approaches to teaching disciplinary habits of mind <\/em>(2009) and\u00a0exploring more signature pedagogies: approaches to teaching disciplinary habits of mind <\/em>(2012).<\/p>\n

if you\u2019re interested in learning more about signature pedagogies, refer to these resources:<\/p>\n