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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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Surprising best gift to my undergraduate students
This is the time of year when I start to wonder if I’ve done a good enough job with my large undergraduate class. Have I really shaped a great learning experience for the 46 students in Biology 472, Behavioral Ecology? … Continue reading
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Tagged colleagues, friends, high school, learn, teach, teams, Wikipedia
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If you don’t lecture, what do you do in class on the first day?
In a couple of hours my students will be forming their indelible first impressions of me and my wonderful teaching assistants. Studies show that their opinion after the first 10 minutes correla tes highly with their opinion at the end … Continue reading
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Tagged class, cooperative learning, death by powerpoint, Education, lecture, Selfish Gene, Student, syllabus, teach, teacher, university, Wikipedia, YouTube
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Explode your classroom
Any architect would tell you that space defines interactions, but we also know that humans adapt to their conditions. How does this affect teaching? This is a short personal story and a plea for an entirely different kind of classroom. … Continue reading
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Tagged Classroom, classroom architecture, Education, Educators, lecture, teach, teacher
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How to group your students in class
These are glorious days to be a teacher. Not only is there all the fun of teaching that has always been there, but there is an increasingly active community interested in making teaching and learning as effective as possible. We … Continue reading
Ignite your audience with lightning or Pecha Kucha form talks
Long before Powerpoint existed I once was a teaching assistant for an introductory biology class in the intensive summer session at the University of Texas at Austin. One of my main tasks was to sit in the back of the … Continue reading
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