{"id":48,"date":"2015-09-24T13:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/?p=48"},"modified":"2016-07-27T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T13:57:27","slug":"being-transparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/2015\/09\/24\/being-transparent\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Tips: The Unwritten Rules of College &#8211; Being Transparent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\">You may have noticed that I have not sent many readings your way yet this semester, aware\u00a0that\u00a0we are all\u00a0so\u00a0busy.\u00a0But when Ann Taylor sent me the following <em><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif\">Chronicle<\/span><\/em>\u00a0article I thought it was\u00a0worthy of your attention.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\">The issue is transparency&#8211;how much do we share with students\u00a0about the purposes behind\u00a0our assignments, how much do we explain the specific tasks we are asking them to do, and how clearly do we articulate the criteria we use to evaluate their work?\u00a0 As some of the comments that follow the essay assert, this issue may be old news to most of us. But I think it is old news we need to regularly remind ourselves of. The longer I&#8217;ve taught a text or a concept, the more I forget how mystifying it\u00a0might appear to\u00a0a novice. I have to force myself into looking at the material from the student&#8217;s perspective, and I think the suggestions in this article are helpful reminders of that gap in perception:<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Unwritten-Rules-of\/233245\/\">http:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Unwritten-Rules-of\/233245\/<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"ms-rterangepaste-end\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Tahoma',sans-serif;color: black\">-Warren Rosenberg<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may have noticed that I have not sent many readings your way yet this semester, aware\u00a0that\u00a0we are all\u00a0so\u00a0busy.\u00a0But when Ann Taylor sent me the following Chronicle\u00a0article I thought it was\u00a0worthy of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-tips"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/teachingandlearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}