September 2005
Friday 23 September 2005
- A Return to Taxonomy - In my entry "Remembering the Objective of Learning Objectives" two years ago, I wrote about Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives and how it gives teachers a great way to think about course design -- from syllabus construction to assignments. This term, our campus is hosting "Teaching and Learning Forums" which... (23:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 10 September 2005
- Tomorrow's Professor - I've been meaning to plug a really great e-mail listserv on Pedablogue for quite some time: Tomorrow's Professor, led by Richard M. Reis (author of a book by the same title). I subscribe to this newsletter, which disseminates wonderfully thoughful essays about college teaching (usually excerpts from current books by... (10:17 | 0 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)
Thursday 8 September 2005
- Are you a Softie or a Tyrant? - Shari Wilson does it again for Inside Higher Ed with an excellent essay on the attitudinal issues that teachers sometimes project in their classrooms, called "A Poor Desk-Side Manner." It's a very smart piece on how teachers sometimes slip into modes that are either too tyrannical or too softie. She... (17:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Monday 5 September 2005
- The Difficulty Paper - In my Composition course this semester, I'm going to assign something called a "Difficulty Paper" -- a task in writing about the things students find difficult to understand when reading an essay, ranging from vocabulary to turns in an argument to theoretical references -- in response to an essay they'll... (15:12 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)