GEDI / Grad 5114 – Fall 2015
Last week I had the opportunity of teaching my first class ever. I have to say that I enjoyed it very much! Previously I have been under research assistantships (RA), but last semester I started doing teaching assistantships (TA). Last semester I only went to class and graded assignment and tests, this semester is the … Continue reading Under Construction
Read moreLast spring was the first semester that I had ever taught in a classroom setting. It was for a class where I was the TA, and was asked by the professor to give a single lecture. Luckily, it was for a small class of 8 students. After many hours of putting together a very detailed,…
Last week for my MOT class, I got to take the teaching styles inventory by Grasha- Riechmann and found out that although my facilitator/delegator style of teaching can be advantageous, it can also be disadvantageous for the students who need more direction, and supervision. Interestingly, at the same day, when I was about to introduce […]
Read moreWhether I brought you in because you are interested in what I have to say, or my artistic liberties with the word imagine and Virginia Tech’s tagline ‘Invent the Future’ I’m glad you’re here. I found this weeks literature on imagination and motivation…well, truly motivating. To begin, I the TED talk given by Daniel Pink […]
From this week’s readings and videos and from the current status quo of higher education, we can see the major shift in the role of universities in society. Universities originally were centers for finding knowledge through questioning and wondering about the world around us. Philosophy, anatomy, arts, architecture… Although there was still present, in many […]
What is wrong with our education system? That our schools are a residue of the industrial age and the great war years, the content delivery style of teaching does not work, and there is a fundamentally wrong focus on school and grades and teaching and training instead of learning. As Pink Floyd summarize perfectly in this classic. … Continue reading We Dont Need No Education
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