Many students learn best by doing or building. Teachers can learn the same way. UNC Greensboro’s School of Education students – as well as current teachers – need spaces where they can experiment, learn from mistakes, and fine-tune ideas so that they feel more confident in their classrooms.
Dr. Sara Porter, associate professor of teacher education and higher education; and Matt Fisher, assistant director of the SELF Design Studio, give them spaces to stretch their creative muscles: Off campus, educators can design curriculum products at the makerspace Forge Greensboro. On campus, in the SELF Design Studio, education students learn about educational technology to support “making” in the classroom.
“I always tell them, ‘You’re going to leave here with a Batman utility belt of things that you can do with your students,’” says…
