Subject: Let's Start!

Posted by Tim Joy on 9/17/2009

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Welcome to a new school year!

For all the reasons so many of us can call to mind, the teaching of system dynamics seems at a critical moment – it's a systemic understanding that suffuses us with power, our global citizenship, so we might rise to the complex challenges we face. There is a lot to do. And we all start in our classrooms.

Some of us started teaching back in August, others in the last week, and there are probably a few who are just underway. These opening days are filled with hope and renewed designs: What will I keep from last year? Will I evaluate student work the same way? How shall I start and stop each class session? Will students know what to do when they walk in my room? What will people see my students doing when they enter my room? If a course uses a systems approach with its content, to what extent does the syllabus reflect that?

And so, I was wondering . . .

Regardless of your subject, how do you compose your syllabus, set up your classroom, manifest class guidelines and rules in such a way that befit a systems approach?

Please join us. This will help us all. And it will be fun.

Tim Joy

Follow Ups:

Let's Start! - Clelia Scott 9/23/2009