What is Expected of the Student
Taking responsibility for their learning by:
- Regularly attending class
- Using class time effectively (as this is an excellent chance for gaining support in learning complex tasks)
- Completing homework thoroughly and avoiding short cuts
- Taking a proactive approach
- Seeking feedback and help prior to due dates
- Using tutorial effectively
- Engaging in the English ‘process’ for deconstructing text
- Avoiding last minute text creation
- Demonstrating time management skills
- Exhibiting a readiness to learn
What our Students are Encouraged To Do in English.
Demonstrate commitment as shown by:
- Challenging themselves to think, read, and write at increasing levels of complexity
- Realizing that frustration is a natural part of learning when new concepts are introduced (and, of course, progressing past frustration and into efficacy)
- Maintaining a prolonged effort to achieve high grades
- Exploring answers comprehensively rather than merely stating ideas
- Engaging in the process of learning and in their own growth
What Students Can Expect from the Teacher
Encouragement and facilitation of student growth, through:
- An invitation to learn about the human condition
- An introduction to and reinforcement of the English ‘process’ for making meaning
- Continued encouragement of student thinking and exploration in writing
- Teaching strategies to understand text at increasing levels of sophistication
- Giving feedback, in multiple forms, about their demonstrated learning
- Providing opportunities to become skillful, discerning readers
- Availability to help during tutorials or other times, when requested
- Dialogue about student’s development throughout the course
- Commitment to encourage students who demonstrate readiness to learn
