{"id":18165,"date":"2016-01-11T11:33:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T16:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=18165"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:14:33","slug":"the-best-kind-of-school-is-old-school-spotlight-on-stacy-douglas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2016\/the-best-kind-of-school-is-old-school-spotlight-on-stacy-douglas\/","title":{"rendered":"The best kind of school is old school: Spotlight on Stacy Douglas"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer <\/em><\/p>\n

Being a good teacher doesn\u2019t have to be complicated. For Stacy Douglas, it\u2019s as simple as listening to students, and telling a story in return.<\/p>\n

Douglas is an Assistant Professor with Carleton\u2019s Department of Law and Legal Studies. She started teaching at the school in September 2012 and in just three years has been recognized with multiple awards including a 2015 FPA Teaching Excellence Award<\/a> and a 2015 New Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like learning with students,\u201d she says. \u201cYou can have these really amazing conversations and thoughtful reflections on content you\u2019ve assigned. Then that\u2019s the time when we are both learning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Douglas says her own teaching develops continually because she listens to student input and adjusts her style accordingly.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudents need to know that teachers have their best interests in mind and are keen to teach them well, and to teach them things they think are important,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Douglas says she thinks students like her teaching because of her \u201cold school\u201d methods. She doesn\u2019t use a lot of technology, but she focuses on discussing readings and emphasizes a full understanding of the material.<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in going more slowly through my lectures, to emphasize depth rather than breadth,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Rather than just teaching fundamental concepts, Douglas says she tries to tell a story to make the content more relevant and easier for students to remember. She also assigns creative projects, like making an interactive model of the rule of law, to enhance students\u2019 understanding. These kinds of assignments, she says, also teach students to work together and think outside the box.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not immediately apparent why we do these creative assignments,\u201d she says. \u201cIt forces students to work hard to think about what the connections are.\u201d<\/p>\n

Douglas hopes by teaching this way she will encourage students to develop a genuine excitement and interest in the material. More than that, she says she endeavours to help her students develop as individuals and individual thinkers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just about feeding them something, like a line,\u201d she says, \u201cbut rather that they are thinking critically about not only the content in my class, but also taking that critical thinking forward in their research.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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