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AY 375 - Fall 2016: Eighth Day Lesson Plan
Section Recap (20 minutes)
(10 minutes) In groups, share from your midsemester evaluations:
- One consistent comment
- One amusing comment
- One thing you agree or disagree with
(10 minutes) As a class:
- What were some things you learned from your midsemester evaluations?
- Were there any comments that stood out? Was anything surprising?
- How were sections this week?
Faculty Visits (40 minutes)
Professors visiting at 7pm:
- Eliot Quataert
- Jessica Lu
- Eugene Chiang
Some prompts given 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?
Break (5 minutes)
Ethics (45 minutes)
(5 minutes) Explanation of activity.
(10 minutes) Group preparation.
(30 minutes) Six scenarios (5 minutes each).
Homework
- Section video-taping is happening this week. We will send you a link to your section video by the end of the week. Watch it, and complete the Section Video Recap Worksheet (due 10/12, next week!).
- Read papers:
- Bring your lesson plan notebooks to 375 next week.