Course Details

Course offered Winter 2007

H A&S 262 A: Teaching What You Know

H A&S 262 A: Teaching What You Know

SLN 13652 (View UW registration info »)

Eugene Edgar (Education, Honors Faculty Scholar 2006-2007)
Office: MGH 211 B (Office hours: Tuesdays 2:00-3:30), Box 352800
Phone: 221-3431
Email: ebedgar@uw.edu
Frances McCue (English)
Email: frances@francesmccue.com

Credits: 5
Limit: 25 students

Honors Credit Type

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In what situations is expertise a useful commodity? Does knowledge include the awareness of how to best use it?

In this seminar we’ll learn the basics of teaching. By exploring various methods that have been used to transmit knowledge and skills from experts to non-experts, we’ll develop methods to use knowledge to improve the lives of the non experts and enhance the knowledge of those who are transmitting it. We will use the work of two nonprofit community places, one from the early 1900s –Jane Adams (Hull House)—and a recent one–Richard Hugo House here in Seattle. We will use readings, discussions and outside speakers as well as reflective writing as a means to achieve the seminar goals. The outcome of this seminar will be for each student to have a developed plan to transmit his or her knowledge to some community group. If possible students should plan on registering for a spring quarter service learning experience.

Bibliography:

Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House, New York: Signet, Penguin Putnam, 1961
Jerome Bruner, Toward a Theory of Instruction, Belknap Press, 1966
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, New York: Continuum, 2000

Course Packet: Selections of Eleanor Duckworth, Richard Hugo, Maxine Greene, Mihalyi Cziksentmihalyi, Frances McCue, Billy Collins

Possible activities:

Teaching each other
Videos on Teaching (private universe)
Collecting data from other learning environments we’re in
Journals

Student Products
2 three-page papers
1 ten-page paper
Journal on learning
Mini-teaching lesson video taped (group project0
Final Reflection paper on best teaching practices