"What does it look like to not listen? And let's start with listening as a one time act. Where do you see this showing up in your own teaching and failures that you've had, or in the others?" "I went into class thinking, oh, by the end of this discussion, the students are going to have this one particular concept figured out, or whatever," he says. 'And funny how it always endedup going exactly where i thought i was going to go'
Chris Friend discusses teaching as listening on episode 328 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast
Quotes from the episode
We don’t teach content, we teach the students who are in the room.
-Chris Friend
Planning less has always paid off for me.
-Chris Friend
This semester’s classes amaze me with how flexible and sympathetic students are.
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Chris Friend