It’s good to meet people where they are and aim to be responsive to what people—especially students—are facing. Do we do that at the expense of quality? At some point, will we have to choose between quality and people?
My experience has been similar to Professor Theresa MacPhail’s description that continuing to meet student’s “where they are” as conditions decline can begin to feel like being “a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard” as the pressure on our students build and they have less and less capacity.
It’s possible that we won’t be able to meet people where they are as general rule because if conditions continue to get worse (👀 climate change), it will also mean a significant decline in quality. Maybe that is already happening…
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Professor cited in “Is this the end of reading?”
She has long followed the mantra “meet your students where they are.” But she says if she meets them any further down, she’ll feel like a cruise director organizing games of shuffleboard. (View Highlight)