Archive for the ‘exercises’ Category
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in the dark, together
Sunday, November 16th, 2008
As reported in The New York Times, At Haverford, Tossing It All in Name of Teaching, Tom Donnelly employs the following experiential learning moment with the Haverford College cross-country team.
This first Donnelly team attended a preseason high school camp in the backwoods of Pennsylvania. One night, in the dark, Donnelly took the team out for a […] -
Reading - An Exercise
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
(Feel free to weigh in with your thoughts, feelings, insight, intuitions, about what this teaching story cum exercise means for you–in the comments.)
The Greatest Question
A student one day was discovered by a teacher. After some preliminary work together, the teacher asked the student if she was willing to do an exercise.
“Yes!”
The teacher told the student […]