What is a Good Student?

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February 20, 2024
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Module: Intro to Pedagogy

In Legacy Pedagogy Baggage, Matthew R Morris reminds us to acknowledge and lay down the pedagogical ‘baggage’ that we carry with us. What is your own ‘legacy pedagogy baggage’?

The need to be efficient–to save time, to minimize effort because my time is limited
I was the student who talked often in class when I knew “the” answer, who directed my talk to the teacher
I was a good rule follower, tried to do what the teacher wanted. I learned to be this way because I had a horrible 4th grade teacher whose rules and enforcement destroyed my self-esteem. Fortunately, my 5th grade teacher somehow recognized that I needed opportunities to excell and i stayed after school willingly to do projects for her.

What would you need to help you lay it down?

To realize that learning takes time, and varying amounts of time for different people, that my need for efficiency does not serve the student. To realize that students come with the baggage of how school has been for them up to this point, that they have many motivations for what the do, or don’t do, in class that may have nothing to do with the class itself. I’m thinking of students who do video games while they are in class. Maybe a “human” personal discussion with the student about what the attraction of the game that he needs that he is not getting from the class.

What would you pick up instead?

To re-think what a “good student” is, how learning can be achieved in many ways.

What is a Good Student?

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