Tag Archives: Active learning

Teaching effectively and efficiently: abstract writing

Posted on March 1, 2017 by

Are you happy with how you teach writing? Do you have a trick? The only tricks I have are to give good examples and to have students write a lot. Beth Fisher at a Wash U writing workshop convinced me … Continue reading →

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Teach to do not to know

Posted on April 23, 2015 by

Last week a student came to talk to me. In the course of discussion he said that he learned a lot from a class in the business school here at Wash U, even though he wasn’t particularly interested in the … Continue reading →

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Asking the right questions

Posted on June 30, 2012 by

We professors are creative a lot less of the time than we might think we are. We must drive the education scholars crazy because we so often teach in the same old tired ways of 500 years ago, despite strong … Continue reading →

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