Teaching Tips

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Learning occurs where confusion meets interest.

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Take time to inform students of why you are doing what you are doing and why you are teaching the way you are teaching.

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Make the main ideas in each class interesting and relevant.

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Where interest meets confusion, learning occurs.

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In the last few years, students have become increasingly resistant to group work in the collegiate setting.

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If you do not promptly address disruptions, your students will lose respect for you.

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Students' learning measured over a semester.

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Guard your research and writing time as sacred.

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Do not underestimate the importance of the location of where you want to do your Ph.D.

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Your goal is 2 change the learner's perception of their own behavior - not just what they think they do, but what they think ab what they do

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You have to try a lot and fail in order to really progress.

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Ask your students to write the answer to a question you haven't asked or answered.

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If you are just listening, your brain isn't busy enough to be learning.

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The teachers job is to figure out what is going on in the heads of his or her learners.

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Embrace failure. Display failure.

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What matters most for learning is how you learn it.

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Confusion is great. Understanding the professor teach something and you repeating it back are totally different.

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Every discipline should have three or four main ideas that everything is organized around.

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Make people sit at different different places and with different people every day. It makes the class feel smaller.

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Differentiate between disagreement and delegitimizing.