Diane Guenin-Lelle's First Year Seminar at Albion Cultures, Connections, and Communitiess from Albion to France, and Back An Article from the Albion Record about her First Year Seminar Trip to France Teaching for me is a process. A process of growth, change and crossing boundaries.
Higher education is a time of passage, of preparation and of growth.
Students are only with us for a short time. To get students to stop thinking about the future, and to focus on the present, in order to forge the teachable moment, is one of our greatest challenges. Our focus as educators needs to be on how we can best facilitate our students encountering truth and knowledge. This encounter is always multifaceted, in that while students study our disciplines, they are also growing in self-knowledge. As their teachers, it is important for us to facilitate these students' encounters with the Academy, while at the same time we allow them to more fully understand who they are and what they might become.