Name: Department of Foreign Languages: Enhancing Education Through Individual Attention
Uploaded: 2014-06-16T04:13:15.000Z
Duration: 2 min 27 s
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A lot of our classes are relatively small.

It gives us an opportunity actually to move, in some cases,

more rapidly through material and to have a better chance

to move in directions that the class decides to take,

rather than sticking rigidly to a syllabus.

We interact with our students frequently in the language that

they are studying when we see them in the halls and when we

For example, the German table meets at a coffee house

downtown, and not only do students and faculty from the

university come and take part in that, but members of the

>> Student:  We learn a lot about subject

matter in classes, but I've also learned a lot about working

You get a lot of talking to people, talking to your

professors all the time, that it becomes natural,

and I think that'll make me a lot less nervous for

>> Stephen Canfield:  What it comes down to is

what we've been talking about, and that is the idea

It's not just that students react when I do something,

or that I react when they do something, but that we do

interact, and there is an exchange between us,

so that we both gain something from what we are doing.

I always learn something different about the material

that I've taught for years by working with different

And each time I get a different class I have a

Just this morning, I was sitting in class, and I asked them

a question, and when they gave me the answers that they did,

I said, "Wow, you are the only class that I've ever had

So, there was, it was a new experience that I'd never had

in the classroom before, and that's fantastic.

I hope they get the same kind of reaction.