... a quarterly newsletter published by Global Learning Partners
 
Summer 2005
ISSUE 2


Dialogue Education at King's University College

by Dr. Heather Prior
Assistant Professor of Biology
Twenty professors learning to teach?

Twenty professors
learning to listen?!

Yes, indeed, the Dialogue Education Approach has swept over the King's University College in Edmonton like the swift quiet waters of the rising North Saskatchewan River nearby. In two years time nearly half of the continuing faculty members at King's have taken the Learning to Listen-Learning to Teach course, thanks to a strongly supportive administration which values teaching itself as an avenue of scholarship.

Like faculty in colleges and universities everywhere, we are constantly transforming our lectures, our courses, and our programs. Now we have a new common language with which to encourage one another and new tools for design to sharpen our thinking about teaching and learning. We have only just begun to scrutinize ourselves in the light of this new paradigm and we hope to actively give each other feedback on designs and visit one another's classes in the year to come. A trickle has become a flood of new ideas as the river of teaching and learning suddenly broadens far beyond its original banks. May it carry us to new places of transformation and growth.

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