Tuesday, May 8, 2007. There are many interesting discussions that can stem from these ideas.

How to learn to teach? Discussion space on university teaching. Focus on teachers in their early career development, and on linking findings of cognitive psychology and pedagogy to the college classroom. Comparisons between different instruction-education systems very welcome. High level of informality, high level of respect. Sunday, June 24, 2007. Thoughts on group work and presentation. Think outside of the box;.

Monday, June 4, 2007. End of the Year Grade Grubbing. Usually around the last two weeks of classes I start getting a lot of students who are really concerned about their lab grade and what their status is. Although this is understandable I hoped that by laying out a clear syllabus this quarter I could avoid much of this activity. Wednesday, May 30, 2007. I think that in 7C we de-emphasis the very thing that students need in order to understand what they are doing and at th.

Sunday, April 29, 2007. How to teach science in practice. In the next blog, I will discuss several specific difficult situations I have encountered with students. I will describe how I responded to the student and the result. I will ask for comments on how others would handle similar situations. However, in my experience the goal of gaining research is experience is vague. So what should the student learn? Often underappreciated is the ability to manage data. Students should gain an appreciation for .

Thursday, May 3, 2007. Do you think that it is appropriate or good to use more text in a powerpoint presentation on a scientific topic than on a humanities topic? Monday, March 26, 2007.

Sunday, May 13, 2007. , and Hoy, W. Are these skills that we c.

Thursday, May 10, 2007. True mastery of material is something that needs to be emphasized all through school, from kindergarten to PhD. Tuesday, May 8, 2007. One thing that Suskie discussess is the possibility in the future of having individually custom-tailored assessments for each student. This seems to me to be inherently unfair; if students are all assessed differently how can their grades be comparable? Friday, May 4, 2007. Wednesday, May 2, 2007.