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Category Archives: Interdisciplinary
A Modest Proposal 2018
I asked my Differential Equations class (mostly seniors, some juniors) to review what I felt the course content (as opposed to the course process/pedagogy) had been this semester. It was a list of “things they should be able to do” … Continue reading
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Assess the Essence
(and a second session from the 5.25 inservice) With the move to get rid of “traditional exams” or “final tests,” there has been an exodus to “projects,” which term seems to mean many different things to many different people. Final … Continue reading
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Student choice, teacher enjoyment
(At our inservice today, I presented two sessions. Here are the notes I used for the first one) Power of Choice We all like choices, but as students get older, it can be harder to manage the process of giving … Continue reading
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Asking Questions redux (part deux)
Having talked about today’s class in the previous post, I thought I’d write about what I’m going to do tomorrow as follow-up. I’ll start with a two-question survey sometimes used in large college lecture courses (that I’ve occasionally used in … Continue reading
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Panthers
Panthers In order to help me keep my resolution to be educationally bold next year, I’m forming what might more professionally be called a professional learning committee (but which might also be considered my personal support group). It’s a group … Continue reading
Not a history teacher…
During a discussion with a colleague yesterday, I was asked what my goal was for a new elective that she and I will be proposing this fall for next year. I said, “to get students to see that race is … Continue reading
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What are your interests and aspirations for next year?
In response to that question from one of my dept heads, after much thought I finally sent the following response. It is somewhat overstated and deliberately provocative in the hope that even motivating people to say, “That’s crap!” would be … Continue reading
Perspective shift
So, a great deal of thought and blogspace, even time at conferences, goes into such topics as “PBL” (problem-based learning), “STEM” (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics”, and “21st-century learning” (which is either self-evident or means so many different things to … Continue reading
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Lamp of Knowledge
A couple of people have asked for the remarks I made when receiving the “Lamp of Knowledge” award last Friday evening. There were some extemporaneous comments tying in to Tony Sirignano’s recognition, but here’s the original text, which is mostly … Continue reading
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Beauty
The following is an exchange with a colleague on the subject of beauty in literature. My comments in red. My wife’s histology professor in medical school was well-known for describing cellular processes as “elegant.” Physicist/author Brian Greene writes about the … Continue reading
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