Over the past ten weeks as a learning assistant, I have learned a great deal about how it feels like being on the other side of the student-teacher interaction. While I first started off as a learning assistant, I did not know there were teaching strategies to maximize student learning but after going to the pedagogy seminar and reading the articles provided on a weekly basis, I feel like I have a relatively better understanding of teaching than I had before. During my first few weeks as a learning assistant, whenever a student asked a question I would just answer their question but after learning about univocal and dialogic discourse, I now try to help the students answer their own questions rather than me doing it for them. For example, during the transformation lab, when a student …show more content…
With equality, every student gets the same advantage but in one of the cartoons, it depicted three kids who receive the same box to stand on but one of them still could not see over the fence because he was too short while the others could see fine. On the other hand, equity is understanding the abilities of each and every student and catering for them specifically so they can receive “equal” benefits. I believe this is the most important concept that we learned from pedagogy because no student is ever the same and it is very hard to create an equal school society in which they all receive similar benefits based on their backgrounds. For example, some of the students in my lab did not take AP biology in high school so they have a disadvantage over the students who did take it and I try my best to help the students who did not have the opportunity to take that course in high school. Hopefully doing that allowed the students to be on the same level as the students who did take AP biology in high school and allow them the equal opportunity to