Thinking About Teaching

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Thinking About Teaching Learning
I believe that people who teach college want to
be as effective as possible. For something as
complex and unpredictable as teaching, we would
do well to think about teaching, read about
teaching, and talk about teaching reflectively,
honestly, and seriously.
Thinking About Teaching Learning (1999), Robert
Leamnson
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To Build a Better Teacher
Education has been susceptible to waves of goofy
ideas down through the years, but it has been my
observation that teachers do not originate these
fads.
To Build a Better Teacher (2004), Roger Gray
Holland
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If I Wanted To Study . . .
Bottom line, the student said, is that I like
your old way of teaching much better, when you
explained everything in detail for us. If Id
wanted to study, I would have gone to a real
college, not a two-year school like this. His
four companions all nodded in agreement.
If I Wanted to Study, I Would Have Gone to a
Real College Thought Action (Winter 2004),
Tony R. Kuphaldt
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Discussion Questions
1) Do you agree with the author that teaching
first-year students is becoming more difficult?
2) Discuss the following most first-year
students do not know how to listen well, or make
notes on what they hear, to read with
comprehension, or to write referentially about
the real world.
3) Discuss the following That the students
are the best arbiters of their academic needs is
highly questionable. Most students have goals,
but these are usually long-term and nebulous, and
are better described as wishes for the future.
4) Discuss the following Teaching first-year
students is so different from teaching the more
experienced, that we need to develop an explicit
philosophy or set of beliefs for teaching the
first-year student.