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Interview with Jan Kido

Recent Teaching History
Master in Teaching; 2000-1; 1999-2000; 1997-98; 1996-97
Human Health and Development; 1998-99
Beyond Dichotomies; Winter/Spring 1996
MIT Director; Fall 1995

Recent and Current Areas of Interest

"I am interested in working with students who are culturally encapsulated and facilitating the move through experiences that will allow them to know what is beyond their encapsulation. I am working towards being more Freirian in my approach to interactive workshops. Christine Bennett and Christine Sleeter are two researchers whose work is important for students to know about. Paulo Freire, Miles Horton and Ira Shor are others that I recommend to students."

Key Qualities of Student Work:

"In the MIT program, I look for
Student ability to articulate their thinking orally and in writing, and
A student should be critically articulate and engage in dialogue, and student explorations would occur freely.
Seminar conversation does not rely on me as the final voice.
Assessment includes using a rubric and extensive written feedback on student work.
Students engage in a dialogue with faculty, with peers in seminar and small groups, and reflect on their own participation and work.
We recently gave a take-home exam on statistics, assessment, testing, and standardized tests to see if our students would be able to discuss state required testing with the parents of their learners."

Teaching Style:

"My sense of my teaching does not seem to be confirmed by students. I think of myself as being open. Students say they are intimidated by me because I don't say much in seminar. My Freirian orientation in seminar seems to have created a sense in them of intimidation. Students who do well with me are ones who have already begun to question their location, have already been exposed to and question critically their perspective, their political position, intellectual engagements and commitments. Students who were willing to be challenged regarding perspectives on gender, race, class do well with me."

Interviewer: Yvonne Peterson

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