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Home > Workshops and Classes > Schedule of Events > Summer 2009 >Disciplinary Habits of Mind: Engaging Students in Authentic Learning

Disciplinary Habits of Mind: Engaging Students in Authentic Learning

Mondays July 13th to August 10th, 2009
12:00-1:00pm, Room: TBA
To register contact Leslie Rutberg, lrutberg@uoregon.edu

Facilitator: Leslie Rutberg

When students leave your course, what do they really know about the work and values of your discipline? Do they see you as a collector and distributor of data within a content area, gathering bits of information about a favorite author, or architect, or time, period, or cancer gene? Does the work they turn in indicate that all they’ve done is collect information without thinking critically about how to use it? When we use class time to deliver conclusions and polished arguments, students get very little information about how conclusions and arguments are made.

For example, we all agree that critical thinking is vital to student success in our courses. But do we ever talk about what that means? Does critical thinking look the same in every discipline? Would a critical essay about Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring look the same in a journalism class and an environmental studies class? Each discipline has specific areas of interest, specific questions it asks of the world, a particular process for evaluating information, and a unique criteria for argumentation.

This workgroup will meet every week to articulate these specific habits of mind and develop assignments that help students to practice thinking like a professional in your discipline. Feel free to come to every session or drop-in when you want to re-think a particular lesson plan.

 

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