Speaker: Betsy Butler, Course Designer and Writer
What do you hope teachers will take away from this course?
Betsy Butler: Hi, I'm Betsy Butler and I'm the course designer for this course. 5244 on productive struggle. This is a great hot topic for the school year and it allows teachers and students to understand the "not yet" approach. If they don't have the answers right away, it's better for your brain to struggle a little bit in finding those responses. Uh, different aspects are covered in the course, like grading and how to give good feedback, how to plan lessons so that they include productive struggle and even the fact of relationship building. I think this is a course that teachers will glean an entire framework in order to keep pushing for productive struggle in their classrooms.
What do you love about this course?
Betsy Butler: One of the things I really love about the productive struggle course is this concept of the learning pit where you start out and then as you learn more and more and more, the more complicated things can be and the more your brain struggles, the less it knows and trying to process its way through and then it comes out of the learning pit that much stronger with that much stronger knowledge because of the struggle. And I think that's something that uh we all strive for as educators. But it helps to have the frameworks in place and some of the other processes in place to make sure we support students while they're in the learning pit.
