Msg. #0600 LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN TEACHING: LESSONS FROM QUICK STARTERS
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| Audience/Grade: | Graduate-Professional Development |
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All Science and Engineering Engineering Education Research General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Academic Careers and Issues Teaching and Learning Research Center |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Richard Reis |
| Description: | "Teaching can overwhelm you because most junior faculty have failed to receive either careful supervision of their teaching or coaching in the tricks of the trade. If they had received these in graduate school, they would begin their careers as more effective, efficient, and comfortable teachers. Because they are usually unprepared as they take their first job, they can feel intense anxiety about their duties in the classroom. As their research and writing are put off, their anxiety intensifies." This posting gives some excellent advice for beginning faculty on how to make their first teaching experiences as effective and enjoyable as possible. It is from Chapter 6: Good Practices in Mentoring, in Faculty Diversity: Problems and Solutions, by JoAnn Moody. Published in 2004 by RoutledgeFalmer, 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001 [www.routledge-ny.com]. |
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Closing paragraph Finally, a new teacher must concentrate on learning to be efficient and wise about the use of time. a memorable analogy is offered by Assistant Professor Kim Needy in industrial engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. She observes: "Teaching preparation can be more like a gas than a liquid or a solid. In other words, it will fill all the space available to it if you let it. You can always add a case study, improve an overhead, and revise a handout. At some point, you have to put a box around it and say, 'enough'" (quoted in Reis's Listserv, March 16, 1998). |
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| Publication Date: | November 2004 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/600.html |
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2004 by Taylor and Francis Books, Inc. RoutledgeFalmer is an imprint of the Taylor and Francis Group. |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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Tomorrow's Professor
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