User talk:Felixhenoud

Teaching adults. What is that exactly? How can you support and scaffold adults coming back to academic settings after over 15 years of a disconnect? What are the proper tools to making them feel welcomed, rather than giving them a feeling of isolation and being isolated from their school peers? Is there a magical silver bullet out there that might alleviate such anxieties for these adults? Should we, as educators care about them? What kind of relationship should we maintain with our students in order to get them to "connect" with us and "trust" us and "believe" in us in order to let feel we are only there to guide them, and not impede on their future journeys?

So many turbulant questions foment within simply at the thought of even daring to care about a student, given the current social climate of paranoia, etc. In the words of Aultman, et al (2009), "...Caring in the context of teaching was often expressed as caring about students beyond their school year..." that might be true. However, are we to take this caring relationship with our students at face value? Or should we simply ignore some social norms and go forward in forging peculiar bonds with our students? That remains to be seen.

Ref.: Lori Price Aultman, Meca R. Williams-Johnson, Paul A. Schutz, Boundary dilemmas in teacher–student relationships: Struggling with “the line”, Teaching and Teacher Education, Volume 25, Issue 5, July 2009, Pages 636-646, ISSN 0742-051X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2008.10.002. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X08001753)