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Author Archives: Rachel Oppenheimer

0106, 2015

My Mapping Journey: Lessons in Focusing In, Challenging the Assumed, and More

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • June 1, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 422

I joined the Mapping course with excitement, passion, and, admittedly, a discomfort with the unknown. As I surfed the web of Google

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0205, 2015

Bringing ‘Structuring Equality in the Classroom’ to the Purposeful Pedagogy Conference

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • May 2, 2015
  • Events of interest, Reflection
  • 512

On Friday, May 1, Natalie Oshukany, Evan Misshula (in absentia), and Rachel Oppenheimer modified their Life Barriers & Persistence Mapping/Futures Unit for

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2604, 2015

How should we be in the classroom?

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • April 26, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 367

In our Adult Education classrooms, as is true to some degree in all of our classrooms, students use their bodies to express all sorts

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0604, 2015

Professors and Persistence: Caring Instruction and Structural Equality in the Classroom

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • April 6, 2015
  • Class Recap
  • 507

Mapping the Futures of Higher Education Unit Recap – March 24 & 31 – Professors & Persistence 4:15-6:15 pm   Group 3:

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1603, 2015

The Power of Relationships

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • March 16, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 389

In thinking about my teaching philosophy, the following words come to mind: relationships, humanity, respect, seriousness, relevance, depth, analogy, energy. Foremost, I believe

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1503, 2015

Two Chances at the Same Lesson, or, It’s Nice to Have a Do Over

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • March 15, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 371

At the end of last week, I had the fortune to substitute teach for an evening class and then the subsequent morning

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0803, 2015

My First Ever Class, as Teacher

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • March 8, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 690

To be honest, this was my first time Teaching, with a capital T. Well, not exactly. Since Freshman year of college, I

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2302, 2015

Assessment and Mindset, and My Journey in the Struggle

  • Rachel Oppenheimer
  • February 23, 2015
  • Reflection
  • 463

In last week’s class, we talked about assessment. Formative assessment, summative assessment, and how we use assessment wisely (or not) to activate

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