This summer I’m teaching classes AND taking classes for the first time since graduate school. I promised myself back then that I wouldn’t ever take an exam again. I told myself there’s a reason that a Ph.D. is a terminal degree. I knew I’d never be done with learning, but I wanted to be done…
This week a lot of my time was spent listening to my students. I handed out a mid-semester evaluation form in one class and spent a whole class period gathering feedback on a brand new series of assignments in another. I also had several one on one conversations with students and participated in a career…
At the start of the semester, I intended to blog every Friday, reflecting on the teaching and learning experiences of the week. Here it is the end of October, more than halfway through the semester, and I’m writing my first post. I could give you a list of reasons/excuses why this happened-family health crises, travel,…