As a student, I expect you to be an active participant in the learning process. Your input, both in discussion and in written form, are vital to the success of the class. In essence, you get out of this course what you put in. You are welcome to disagree, question, and refute anyones' ideas (including my own) as long as it is done in a respectful manner. You don't have to agree with your classmates, but you do have to respect their right to have a different perspective from you. Once again, the success of the class depends on your efforts to be an inquisitive skeptic, and actively take part in the overall process.
I like your expectations! Do you have many students take you up on disagreeing respectively?
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ReplyDeleteNice expectations. I can tell there is a mutual respect going on in your classroom. Letting the students know they don't always have to agree, but to know they can disagree in a respectful manner, lets them know it is ok to have opinions in this class and they will be heard.