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Category Archives: Teaching Skills
Diagnosing student feedback
Students think the textbook is boring. They come to class unprepared. They haven’t done the reading and/or they don’t have anything meaningful to add to discussion. Then they complain about their grades. It’s easy to complain about the state of … Continue reading
Writing essays is not a generic skill
Chris Atherton‘s most recent blog post makes a great contribution to debates about assessment, and essay writing in particular. Getting Students to Build Things Out of Concrete (Examples, that is) Go read it and come back. This post started as … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Skills
Tagged academic literacies, assessment, Chris Atherton, essays, Finite Attention, skills, writing
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Finding Your Teaching Style
I’m loving the comments on that last post on lecturing. Such great ideas and perspectives. But if you are new to teaching. Or have a tendency to perfectionism and worrying about whether you are doing it “right”. Here are a … Continue reading
Is lecturing worthwhile?
I agree that lectures can be awful. The myth of the lecture delivered annually for 25 years without updating has, like all myths, some relationship to reality.
But it seems to me that there is a place for the lecture in higher education. And not just because this is what students expect. Continue reading
If someone’s crying, something needs to change
No one said teaching would be easy but … You shouldn’t be exhausted. You shouldn’t be close to tears on a regular basis. You shouldn’t be angry. Identify the problems The key to effective problem solving is to be focused … Continue reading
Posted in Teaching Skills, Work Habits
Tagged calming techniques, getting help, overwhelm, problem solving, taking notes
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