teaching
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I had a really, really long day. I spent 12 hours at work, and much of it on face time. I prepped a class, then taught the class, then spent the next 7 hours meeting with a total of 14 different students: 2 for office hours, 3 who are my research students about various points
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By way of Thoreau over at Unqualified Offerings, I find that the flipped classroom is no more; a new “paradigm-shifting” educational fad is in town, and it is called the scrambled classroom. While we are waiting for the breakfast meat initiative to complete the Grand Slam of education, here are a few options for those who don’t like
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In a comment thread on someone else’s blog, I can’t remember whose, a commenter said that they never understood how or why teaching and research were related. The following is a truth universally acknowledged, but I am going to say it anyway: You have no idea how much you don’t know about something until it’s
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The semester started last week. I am again teaching a junior/senior elective for majors and it looks like it might be a rough semester. The course I am teaching follows a basic, required course in the major. I find the students are poorly prepared, more poorly than the class I had last semester. The students are
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The other day I happened to look at my RateMyProfessor.com page. I have nothing to complain about, the comments are all largely positive. But there was a recent entry that ticked me off probably more than it should have and I am not entirely sure why. Namely, the entry says that I am a decent
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The powers that be have recently started “encouraging” us to adopt “novel paradigm-shifting teaching strategies” (doesn’t the bullshit syntagma make your skin crawl?), specifically the flipped classroom. While I don’t necessarily think it’s a bad idea, the zeal with which the concept is being pushed is making me want to dig my heels in, in protest,
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