Making Sense of Your Summer Teaching Experience: A Reflective Seminar

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

You’ve had an opportunity to try on the role of teaching over the summer, and now you want a space to process the experience. This 1-credit course is a discussion-based seminar designed to create a community of reflection around the variety of teaching roles, both domestic and abroad, taken on by students who participated in a summer teaching program of one sort or another. We will make space to reflect on what you learned about the dispositions and approaches that enabled you to come to know a new community and its context, and to know the ways in which your students embrace the opportunities and challenges of their local educational systems. We will also explore what your experiences taught you about effective classroom strategies and techniques, ranging from planning and instructional pedagogy to assessment to engagement with the broader community. We will ask questions of ourselves and of each other about how our teaching experiences inform next steps and questions in vocational discernment, a conversation that could help you imagine what might be next for an educational system and your potential role in it.