Post #1837901

@TarkabarkaHolgy@ohai.social Being consciously present and attentive. Listening, asking questions, and maintaining a genuine, constructive dialogue with another human being. I'm not saying I'm great at these skills, but I think we who work in teacher education need to make more room for their practice. Unfortunately decades of "rationalization" (i.e. cuts) have resulted in very little time for genuine encounters between teachers and teacher students. This is probably true for academia in general, but it is especially painful to witness in a field where we are supposed to teach future professionals in interpersonal communication. Paradoxically, we have to collect student feedback all the time through various electronic systems (i.e. quantifiable data), but with hundreds of students per teacher/ per term, we have minimal time for actual IRL discussions, personal feedback or oral exams.