HUMAN DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Includes:

• Creating the learning environment in which students can discover

• Providing grounding in theoretical perspectives

• Helping student’s name, reflect, analyze, and apply their experience

• Reflecting back to students how their experience and knowing fits into a bigger theoretical picture

• Utilizing a smaller class size so faculty can facilitate individual and group reflective dialog and processes

• Providing individual attention through weekly journal reflections and feedback from faculty

• Focused lectures

• Group learning activities

• Fostering connected knowing through the relationships we develop with students

• Helping students understand and apply all they are learning

• Being prepared to facilitate learning through emergent processes that may develop from student needs