These reflections can be powerful learning moments for students and teach a process of continuous improvement. Scholarly Purposes One of the most fundamental assumptions teacher may make in error is the understanding students have about scholarship. Marcia Baxter Magolda, keynote speaker at next week's WinterFest, has shown that students approach their learning very differently than mature scholars. Yet, it is knowing why they are doing a task that will guide their intellectual commitments. Get to understand the different stages that shape students' scholarship.
Frustration leads teachers to attribute poor performance to low morale or ineptitude.
Frequently these mistakes are rooted in differing assumptions about what it means to know a subject. We will be glad to send you a model of stages of intellectual growth. Sociologist C. Wright Mills believed that learning a sociological way of seeing the world was more important than understanding any specific theory or method. The same is true of any discipline. Share with students the underlying reasons why people try to understand the world with these unique skills and ideas.