SENCERing Creates Informed, Engaged Student Citizens
Garon Smith, a professor in the chemistry department, goes by the name of “G.Wiz” (short for “Garon the Wizard”) with students. Why the need for the alias? “I’ve found it breaks down the formality of the classroom so the students feel they can talk to me. I’d rather be seen as a coach than as a lecturer,” he says.
And Smith is breaking down more barriers than just those between students and teacher. His teaching, or “coaching,” breaks down the barriers between theory and practice and between knowing and doing. It encourages students to try to solve current, complex, unsolved Read More...
