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Teaching effectively and efficiently: abstract writing
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
Posted in Teaching, Writing
Tagged abstracts, Active learning, posters, teaching, writing
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Teach to do not to know
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
Posted in Teaching, The joy of teaching
Tagged action, Active learning, application, knowledge, teach
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Asking the right questions
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
Posted in New ideas
Tagged Active learning, Andy Burnett, creativity, ideas, innovation, lunch, questions, Research, teaching
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