Strategy for students to become Knowledge Creators

Giving Students Ownership

Being a professor comes with a certain amount of authority. But some instructors have found that letting go in the classroom and finding ways for students to construct their own knowledge can create a richer experience for them.

Using a project created by Robin DeRosa, a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Plymouth State University, as a model, Paige is having her students create a “resource book” for the course.

In order to design a course to meet these kinds of goals, Lang argues, professors need to use “backward design,” beginning the process not by selecting content, but by articulating what they want students to walk away with.

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