Post-Process Pedagogy

When utilizing post-process pedagogy, an instructor gives students a variety of formats in which to present their work. Instead of telling students to each write a paper on a given subject, an instructor would instead give students a topic to explore and allow them to either write a paper or to create the equivalent of an academic paper. An example would be how in our 5060 class we are allowed to choose the format of our final project. While I am working on a paper and a website that together will fulfill the requirement, others in the class are creating a video that deals with an issue related to composition. I also encountered this approach in several of my classes in high school. In my eleventh grade English class, my teacher told us to read a book from a list of books and to create a project to present to the class based on our reading. The results were highly creative and in some cases more interesting than others (for instance, a boy who read The Hot Zone made human organs out of jello to go along with his book report).