This week, I received an email from Faculty Focus with the above title. I recommend you check it out for yourself. Here’s a short excerpt that might provide modest motivation for learning how to apply this technique: Even if you didn’t want to use it in a rigorous study design, the idea of listening to…
Category: student understanding
Who is the student’s most appropriate audience?
Admittedly, I am having trouble developing a title for this post. Broadly speaking, the idea behind my thoughts is that most of my education has been done under a paradigm characterized by two things: I am a consumer of information. I am a producer of information only for the professor. Now, obviously most professors and…
the challenge of evaluating students within technicalities but based on truth
I am challenged by what I find is the hardest part about teaching. Well, it’s one of the hardest things about life in general, but especially when teaching or mentoring students you often find yourself in the position of authority or ‘judgment’ on the quality of students’ work and, in some cases, character. This challenge…
learning teaching & understanding understanding
I am a new assistant professor at George Washington University in Engineering Management and Systems Engineering. For my first semester, being an assistant professor was better than a dream! No teaching responsibility, so I was only writing proposals and submitting postdoc papers. My, how much difference winter break has made! Now, being a prof is…