{"id":404,"date":"2006-07-19T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T09:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/19\/excellent-teaching-advice\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T09:59:41","slug":"excellent-teaching-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/07\/19\/excellent-teaching-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Excellent Teaching Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d be remiss in my academic-blogging duties if I failed to point out this Inside Higher Ed piece on teaching core courses<\/a>. Like many articles published in academic magazines, it’s aimed directly at English composition, but the main points can be extended to intro classes in other disciplines. In particular:<\/p>\n

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10. Don’t compare students’ attitudes to your own. A colleague of mine who taught business at a private university constantly made scathing comments about his students’ seeming lack of effort. “I can’t believe you guys don’t know this stuff!” he would shout at them. Time and time again, he referred to his own college days — how he went above and beyond what was expected by his professor, excelled in his subject, and earned stellar grades. The dean finally called him into his office and confronted him, saying, “These students are not you. You majored in this subject; of course you were interested in it. They are taking this as a requirement. Lighten up.” As my colleague sat there speechless, the dean continued, “And anyway, don’t you ever remember taking courses you didn’t like? Try to think back to when you were 20.” This is not to say that we can’t expect students to achieve the goals we set out for them. But it helps to recognize that there are sometimes years — or even decades of difference in context and values between us and our students.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d be remiss in my academic-blogging duties if I failed to point out this Inside Higher Ed piece on teaching core courses. Like many articles published in academic magazines, it’s aimed directly at English composition, but the main points can be extended to intro classes in other disciplines. In particular: 10. Don’t compare students’ attitudes… Continue reading Excellent Teaching Advice<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-education","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}