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09.12.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:21 pm by leingang
Today was Day 2 of the Bok Center Conference, with my colleague Bret leading a case discussion on group work. We are getting ready for our annual freshman advising period, which starts tomorrow and continues until September 24th.
Here’s what piqued my interest on the internet today:
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05.25.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:33 am by leingang
I’ve been blogging on a consistent basis (almost one post a day) for just over a month now. The fact that a few people have told me they like reading it makes me want to keep it up.
In the short term, however, posts are likely to slow down. My last final is today, and after the long weekend I’ll be taking off to MSRI for the Critical Issues in Education: Teaching Teachers Mathematics workshop. Bret Benesh, Tom Judson, and I are talking on Thursday, May 31 at 2:05pm. I hope to get a few posts in during that time.
After that, I’ll be going on a vacation (Holiday World, here we come!) back sometime after Father’s Day. My Math S-1ab (”calculus boot camp”) in the Harvard Summer School starts on June 25.
technorati tags:summer, apology
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04.25.07
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:26 pm by leingang
Monday the magnolias bloomed in Boston. Today the flowers are falling off the dogwoods. So I guess it’s going to be summer soon.
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05.31.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:32 am by leingang
I just discovered 43Folders a personal productivity blog by Merlin Mann. It has lots of neat tips for getting stuff done. One I like is called the Procrastination dash: Set aside a block of time or a small part of your task and then do it. Then do it again.
Reminds me of an old elephant joke: “How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”
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03.24.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 6:25 am by leingang
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03.16.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 12:34 pm by leingang
Jonathan Zimmerman has an editorial in the Christian Science Monitor called “It’s time to give teaching more weight.” He uses the resignation of Harvard president Larry Summers to point out that universities need to pay more than just lip service to improving the culture of teaching.
Asked what he would do with the undergraduates who had gathered in his laboratory for instruction, one Johns Hopkins University professor quipped, “I shall neglect them.”
He was joking, of course, but only in part. And the joke will continue until we devise new ways to evaluate and reward teaching. As my New York University colleague Ken Bain has written, all professors should have to “construct an argument” for their teaching - just as they do for their scholarship. This argument would explain the objectives of their courses, the classroom strategies they use, the ways they measure student learning, and so on. Like any good argument, it would draw from evidence gathered during the course: syllabi, tests, and student comments.
He goes on to say that teaching should be seriously considered as part of the tenure process, which makes sense as well.
I believe that a truly great university should aim for both exceptional research and exceptional teaching. How hard is that?
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