Ay 300 Fall 2008: Fifteenth day plan

• Photocopy supplemental evals and course summary page.
• Chat has a dress rehearsal at 5:40 p.m. in preparation for Wednesday's Messiah performance.
• Andrew will not be here.
• Last class!!!
• Drinking game rules???
  1. 1 drink: Jeff looks like he really doesn't want to be there.
  2. 1 drink: Peter doodles on the lesson plan during class.
  3. 1 drink: A guest speaker says “Astro 10”.

• Ask any or all of the following:
  • How did section go?
  • What did you do?
  • What didn't work?
  • What would you have changed?
  • Any cool/interesting/sad stories?

• Start discussing writing assignment until a guest speaker arrives
  • What are some ways people would teach Ay 10 differently from the way it's being taught now if they were the instructors?
• Multiple students requested a section on planning lectures during the midsemester eval, so make sure to spend some time discussing that.
• Summer Ay 10
  • Melissa Enoch (~5:25)
  • Julie Comerford (~5:25)
• Others (Ay 199)
  • Mo Ganesh (~5:45)
  • Julie Comerford

• Discuss Reading
  • How many people read it? (Prather-style anonymous survey – thumbs up/down for reading it)
  • Peter thinks the rubric is a useful reference to have handy. Nothing terribly unexpected in the associated text. Good emphasis on not slipping into generalities and on trying to connect everything to a set of specific goals.
  • The rubric itself is pretty logical given what we've talked about this semester.
  • The 5 main points to cover/things to do in a Teaching Philosophy are:
    1. Goals for student learning
    2. Enactment of goals/teaching methods
    3. Assessment of goals (measuring student learning)
    4. Creating an inclusive classroom and acknowledge differences in students' learning abilities and styles
    5. Good structure, rhetoric, language; well-written
  • General guidelines:
    1. Brief (1-2 pages)
    2. Narrative, first person approach
    3. Portray yourself as an individual: don't be vague, broad, or too general
    4. Give specific examples of your teaching in practice
    5. Showcase your strengths and accomplishments
    6. Convey reflectiveness
    7. Communicate that teaching is valued
• Bethany Cobb guest Q&A on the teaching component of the job search (~6pm)
• Give out Andrew West's handouts:
  1. Andrew West's Teaching Portfolio
  2. Jennifer Hoffman's Statement of Teaching Philosophy
  3. Andrew's Preparing for the Job Search (each person will get one of these)
• Michigan's Center for Research on Learning and Teaching has a great site on this stuff here

Hand out departmental evals, supplemental evals, and terse course summary.

• This is kind of an oral course evaluation that goes more in depth than the official department one.
• People may want to amend their evaluations if anything comes up during this discussion that they think is important.
• Ask students:
  1. What were the most important things you learned this year?
  2. What changes should be made for next year?
  3. What topic/discussion could have used more time? Less time?
  4. Which specific readings were/weren't useful?
  5. Was the homework useful or just busy work?

• Please try to get all the projects and assignments done by the deadline (Wednesday). This includes:
  • You must submit a worksheet to the EBRB.
    1. Everyone except Chris, Adam, Sarah, and Don still need to do it
  • Your Design-a-Demo team needs to submit at least instructions (if not a handout and/or worksheet as well) to the EBRB.
    1. Project D-Day (Danica, Don, Aaron, Yookyung) and
    2. Team Awesome (Matt, Sarah, Andrew) still need to do it
  • Andrew needs to show us his Teaching Log
  • Everyone needs to turn in their writing on Teaching Your Own Ay 10.

As always, spend a few minutes exchanging ideas for what to do next week.

Get crunk.