Alien Pedagogy

The major assessment in our poetry unit was presentations.

On the whole, I am very satisfied with this year’s presentations. They were by far the most successful presentations that any of my classes have ever given.

• In speaking, our principle was professionalism.
• In critical thinking, our process was to interpret the theme and analyze three ways in which that theme was presented poetically.
• In technology, our aim was to give Power Point a very minor role. People and their ideas were the focus.
• In file storage, USBs were not allowed to be used (I blamed my Vista computer), so our presentations did not contain people running around with flash cards at the last minute. Our classes were about the skills being taught, rather than frantic uploading and excuses about file loss.
• In reading poetry, our aim was creativity through team reading (this was by far the least successful objective of the assignment).

On the whole, students seem proud of their work in this unit and I’m pleased too.