Being explicit about one's goal of cultivating an inclusive, equitable, and fair classroom learning environment reiterates that students and instructors are on the same side, not on somehow opposing sides, of the teaching and learning process.
There is an uncomfortable side to the teaching of evolution in schools that occasionally rears its head.
On the other side of the spectrum, teaching medical ethics as if it is a scientific body of knowledge could also be dangerous.
My Side of the Mountain taught me that I could learn nature from books and make the outdoors home; that roaming the woods and fields to watch birds and catch newts and snakes was an OK Thing To Do.
On the other side of the island, Teach was busy entertaining guests and had not set a lookout.
What really excites me is the scientific side of teaching — the lab aspect.
This put him on the activist side of Shiite teaching about the mahdi, much as he was also an activist about the exercise of worldly power by the mullahs.
These kind of fly-on-the-wall documentaries have been quite useful in showing the personal side of teaching and the dedication and commitment that so many of us up and down the country have to the profession.
Finally we move to the left side of the canvas to teach the supporting elements of Resources, Partners, Activities and Costs.
It would be very easy for me to give a standard answer here and make it all about me and my family, but that's not what being on the other side of the wall has taught me.
