Ted Hadzi-Antich is a government professor and one of the founders of the Great Questions Seminar at ACC. Here you’ll learn about how the Seminar focuses on the fundamental elements of close readings of source texts, open ended discussion, and classroom community. By the end, I think you’ll find it easy to see why this pedagogy has captured the attention of media outlets ranging from the New York Times to the Chronicle of Higher Education, along with major four-year universities who have been surprised and inspired by what our faculty and students achieve together.
Chapters
- (00:00:00) - Austin Community Conversations
- (00:02:13) - Teaching at ACC: The First Year
- (00:06:33) - In the Elevator With Students
- (00:08:07) - The Importance of Feeling Like An Impersonator
- (00:10:52) - The Great Questions Seminar
- (00:16:06) - The Character Education of Community Colleges
- (00:18:55) - The Great Questions Seminar
- (00:26:23) - A Day in the Life: The Good Life
- (00:29:01) - A Sense of Agency in College
- (00:31:21) - Community Colleges: The Career-Ready Student
- (00:37:43) - The mission of the student success class
- (00:40:19) - Community Colleges: The Diversity of Students
- (00:47:29) - Great Questions: The Pedagogical Model
- (00:53:00) - The Great Questions Program at Austin Community College
