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| astro300_f13:day8 [2013/10/03 23:28] – [Board Work Exercises (rest of time)] a_lee | astro300_f13:day8 [2013/10/08 20:23] (current) – a_lee | ||
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| =====Administering Demos (20 min)===== | =====Administering Demos (20 min)===== | ||
| + | (10 min) Question to the class: Have people tried administering demos in their classes? What sorts of things did you do? How effective do you think they were? What are the ups and downs of using demos? | ||
| (10 min) The instructors will spend some time talking about how to effectively run demos and share some of the better demos that are available to them. | (10 min) The instructors will spend some time talking about how to effectively run demos and share some of the better demos that are available to them. | ||
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| * Different profs have different opinions of students responses on the evals: some ignore them completely and assume that the students have no idea what's best for them, some ignore them because the prof teaches the way they teach and that's that and it won't change, and some actually read through them (or at least read their GSIs' summaries of the evals). | * Different profs have different opinions of students responses on the evals: some ignore them completely and assume that the students have no idea what's best for them, some ignore them because the prof teaches the way they teach and that's that and it won't change, and some actually read through them (or at least read their GSIs' summaries of the evals). | ||
| * Sample ones on the [[private: | * Sample ones on the [[private: | ||
| - | * Handout the [[astro300_f09: | + | * Handout the [[astro300_f09: |
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| This activity will be broken up over this class and the next class. | This activity will be broken up over this class and the next class. | ||
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| + | Start by reminding the students the point of this exercise: | ||
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| + | This activity will be a little different than the activity we did at the beginning of the semester. | ||
| Randomly select someone to go to the board and answer a question from their students. The instructors will not tell you the question in advance to best simulate what you are experiencing in section and in midterm reviews. Each person will have around five minutes at the board. Feedback will be given after each. | Randomly select someone to go to the board and answer a question from their students. The instructors will not tell you the question in advance to best simulate what you are experiencing in section and in midterm reviews. Each person will have around five minutes at the board. Feedback will be given after each. | ||
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| ===== Homework for next time ===== | ===== Homework for next time ===== | ||
| + | - Your third extended teaching log is due next week. Bring in a hard copy or email the copy to us by next Wednesday. | ||
| + | - Next Wednesday is the utmost latest time you can turn in your section video taping worksheet. | ||
| + | - We will be checking your smaller " | ||
