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Topic 2: Learning outside the classroom.
Team: myself
Thesis: The typical course load for a college student is five courses, which equates to about 12.5 to 14 hours a week spent in the actual classroom. Clearly, this leaves students with much more time on their hands outside of the classroom versus in the classroom. It is on the students to keep up with their academics and studying when they are not in the classroom, but not all students can hold themselves accountable to maintain good study habits. For this reason, it is important for students to exhibit learning outside of the classroom in order to further their educational experience at WCU. Through the use of tutoring, the opportunity to study abroad, career shadowing/internships, and discussion/study groups, students are set up for success to learn effectively outside of the classroom.
Sub-points:
1. Tutoring
2. Studying abroad
3. Career exploration/shadowing (perhaps for underclassmen) & internships (upperclassmen)
4. Discussion/study groups
Quotes:
“A young Falkland Islander walking along a beach and spying a dead dogfish and going to work on it with his jackknife has, in a fashion wholly unprovided in modern educational theory, a great advantage over the Scarsdale high-school pupil who finds the dogfish on his laboratory desk” (Percy 4, ❡ 1).
“Does this mean that we should get rid of museums? No, but it means that the sightseer should be prepared to enter into a struggle to recover a sight from a museum” (Percy 6, ❡ 4).
