If you were asked to take a student interested in attending your university to visit a class in one of your courses, how would you explain the course to her (and perhaps her parents) as you walked across campus?
What about a faculty candidate? How would you describe your course to him?
In both cases, would you focus on describing the course content, or the students, or how you teach the course, or just an insignificant one-sentence overview?
Would you use focus on using positive words rather than negative words? Would you have to apologize for the condition of the classroom? Would the majority of your students appear to be students actively interested in education and learning? Would you have to apologize for your students?
If you had not had a heads-up about the visit to your class, would your visitor still have a good understanding of the educational experience by attending your class?
Are you even the person your program should be asking to do this? If not, why not?
So many questions. So worth asking. So worth thinking about.
Because you never know what those people, students or faculty, interested in joining the culture that is your school will focus their decision on. And you want to give them a positive experience in every detail of their visit.
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