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Better Teaching Starts with Asking Early

Better Teaching Starts with Asking Early

Neoliberal universities love generating data about taught classes—once they’ve been completed. But asking systematically about students’ expectations and mindset coming into a specific class is uncommon. So, as campus life resumed after two turbulent years of teaching mostly from home, I decided to circulate a brief, individual and anonymous questionnaire at the first session of a class. Here’s what it taught me.

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