Teaching Tips

Learning occurs where confusion meets interest.

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

Make the main ideas in each class interesting and relevant.

Where interest meets confusion, learning occurs.

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

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

Students' learning measured over a semester.

Guard your research and writing time as sacred.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Embrace failure. Display failure.

What matters most for learning is how you learn it.

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

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

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

Differentiate between disagreement and delegitimizing.