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Collect
the student responses generated from the survey form
(left) and use them to inform your own practice, but
also send a
copy
of
their
responses
to
me, Catherine
Ross, U-2142, and I will summarize all
the results from all the faculty and students who participate.
I will post the results on this website and in our Winter
2009 Teaching Institute will present a summary and address
the implications for teaching and learning. I hope to
get data from all of our campuses and from all types
of classes, so please consider joining our collective
research project!
Here are the thoughts of one of our faculty
participants who has already done this exercise:
“
I was skeptical and pessimistic. I feared that students
who enjoy being entertained and who like it when professors
make life easy for them by predigesting the material, would
say that these things help them to learn best. And in fact,
some students do say ‘Put the lecture notes on line’ (which
I don’t) and, ‘show me movies’, (which
I do).
But for all that, there were also several good specific
suggestions, repeated reminders to connect the material
to real life experience, to involve the students in
discussion, to show enthusiasm for the material, to
use varied tactics
and multiple modalities, to be organized and to be
available. These are the core elements of good teaching,
and I’m
glad they know it when they see it. As an important
side benefit I can now be a little bit more relaxed
about my
work performance being evaluated entirely through the “customers” feedback."
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