{"id":13561,"date":"2013-09-05T13:04:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T17:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=13561"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:20:23","slug":"spotlight-on-teaching-excellence-adrian-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2013\/spotlight-on-teaching-excellence-adrian-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"Spotlight on Teaching Excellence: Adrian Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Sabrina Doyle<\/em><\/p>\n

Adrian Chan likes to think of his classroom as more of a community. In many learning environments, he says, the onus is on the instructor to make the learning process a success because both teachers and students are caught in a cycle of thinking that\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut then it\u2019s a battle. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s what students want. They appreciate the fact that they need to be tested, but I think they\u2019ve lost that ownership,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Chan, who was one of three 2012-13 winners of the Provost\u2019s Fellowship in Teaching Award at Carleton, works to instill in his students a sense of responsibility for their own learning.<\/p>\n

For instance, in a graduate class that he taught this year, he led the students through an experiment: He spent the initial lecture talking about \u201cwhat education is\u201d and why the students were at university. Then Chan had them write a letter of justification for their final mark, far before they\u2019d even done any of the work or received a grade.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was kind of like a \u2018this is what I promise to do\u2019 type thing,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Chan then took all their letters and made word maps out of them.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of what they were talking about was assignments and deadlines. They are being driven by these externalities. Others were talking more about knowledge and learning and self-motivation.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the first time Chan had done such an experiment. He can\u2019t say for sure whether it had much of an impact but he says that he found the class was very engaged and that students seemed to have an understanding that they had to take responsibility for their own learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy lifelong goal is to make a difference in the world. What are the stories that my children\u2019s children\u2019s children are going to say about me?\u201d<\/p>\n

When he teaches, he says his impact is amplified through his students and how they go on to live their lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t kid myself into thinking that they\u2019re doing these things because of me, but I\u2019d like to think I made some small contribution to who they are right now. \u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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