November 24, 2018November 25, 2018Grading Grading is not Teaching Grading is grading. Teaching is helping the students improve their performance or increase their knowledge or change their thinking. Grading doesn’t do any […]
November 23, 2018November 25, 2018Assignments, Philosophy of Teaching What makes a meaningful assignment? I’ve been talking a lot about reducing the picky and endless details of the assignments in order to get the students to […]
November 22, 2018November 23, 2018Assignments How far out can I push my students? Out into the world that is. This is a class in public speaking and so I’m taking the “Public” part seriously. One […]
November 15, 2018November 24, 2018Philosophy of Teaching Specificity is Tyranny You think specificity is good; we’re taught it’s good. But it’s not. It’s oppressive. All those who hate rubrics, raise your hands. […]
November 8, 2018December 6, 2018Assignments The Only-in-New-York Assignment OK, so the commute is horrible and keeps getting worse with the increasing subway crowds and rent is ridiculous. But this city […]