"From Where I Sit" Video Series

Tiago's Story — Faculty Response Video Transcript

Dr Carolina Serna:
I think his point about breaking that cycle of — I understood it as disengagement, academic disengagement, that is so prevalent for a lot of youth. Especially Latinos and African Americans. And so I just feel that Tiago's [phonetic] recommendations are very important.

Dr. Hank Reichman:
I know I had this problem with it, that sometimes where a student who has real problems mastering written material, but is clearly very intelligent has, you know, should be able to succeed in college. But mastering written material is a big thing in history. And it's very hard to figure out what is the way to work with that person without sort of saying, 'Well, I'm just going to basically say, because I know you're basically a descent person and you're trying, I'm going to give you a great grade.' Which I don't think does favors for anybody.

Dr. Alan Monat:
The story was engaging in a sense that, I think it would be instructive to facility to show some of the consequences of not engaging with different students on a one on one basis.

Dr. John Berteaux:
My normal way is to start the class and we're off and running. Never really taking into account that there are students who with the first step, are left behind. And so I will be more proactive in terms of letting them know that I'm sensitive to their situation or what or, how about this. Not sensitive to, I would like to know what's happening with them. Like I'd like to know what's happening with all of my students, but in this case, it may take a little bit more.

Dr. Carolina Serna:
The whole notion of differentiating instruction so that there are alternative ways of demonstrating mastery, so that there are opportunities for extra credit. So, and I like John also have such a tight schedule of material that I'm supposed to cover in the fifteen or sixteen weeks, that I don't like to waste time. And so we just--I move very quickly I try to cover what I need to cover. And I think often times it takes having to step back and often times, reflect and check-in with the students regularly.

Dr. John Berteaux:
It's nice to offer alternative ways of taking the exam. But everything that you offer, is going to demand that you have the time to do that or the time to—suppose I had a class in which half the class wanted to do presentations for the exam. You know, you're going to run into a lot of issues there.

Dr. Don Gailey:
It raises more issues and questions than it really tries to directly deal with. Yes, people learn differently, well what are some of the options that the instructor might have for presenting material in different ways. It doesn't address that so much. But overall, very articulate and I thought, kept my attention.