AY 375 Fall 2016: 9th Day Plan

This class will feature professors talking about their teaching philosophies.

1. Always keep thinking about teaching, despite what the research mongrels at places like UC Berkeley might tell you. Teaching can have a positive impact on your research, because teaching requires you to consider new material from alternative points of view, which in turn leads to new insights. And it's fun!

Teachers visiting:

• Possible options: Eliot (7pm), Mariska, Aaron

Some prompts given to the teachers in advance:

• What class are you currently teaching? Have you taught it in the past? What other courses have you taught?
• For the course you’re currently teaching, what are your learning objectives and goals? How would you complete the sentence “At the end of the semester, I want my students to .” ?
• How do you assess (in lecture, with the GSIs in discussion section, on the exams) whether these goals are being met?
• If you have taught both non-major courses and major courses, how does preparing for those courses compare? How do your learning objectives for them differ?
• What is your lecture style like? Do you employ active learning strategies (think-pair-share, etc.) in your lectures?
• In your teaching experience, what strategies have you found to be effective? Not effective? (e.g., different lecture styles, type of homework problems, projects vs. exams, etc.)
• What do you like best about teaching?

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