Communicate Expectations
My revelation this week is somewhat embarrassing. I do a lot of relationship counseling (marriages, roommates, folks in churches and even work places relationships), and more often than not, I encourage people to: "communicate their expectations". The better one becomes at articulating what they expect, the easier it is for the other party to respond. I've taught two classes now (one each semester last year) and I cringed as I read this week's readings, especially Conquering the Content . I ended up moving about 4 or 5 major deadlines because students were "unclear" about what was expected of them for the assignment. It was a dose of my own medicine. As I move forward, I will definitely use the formula of: 1. Objectives (what I want you to learn) 2. Learning guide (these are the ways you will do it) 3. Learning tasks (here is exactly what I want you to do and what it will look like) and assessments (now that you've done this work, what is your at...