Do you just give lectures and do all the talkings in your class? Or do you really try to engage them in a discussion and stimulate their thinking?
Teaching
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Undergrads want to be entertained. This is particularly true in LACs. You can be the least knowledgeable academic in the world but if you are a good entertainer, a smooth talker and make undergrads feel like they are getting an "interactive" learning experience, you will be loved. Bring cookies every once in a while. Undergrads dig this shit.
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For grad students, what works best is academic gossip. If you can tell them a few stories about, say, how oded galor dresses or anecdotes about people who are extremely aggressive at seminars and things like that, it keeps them entertained. A lot of them are trying to figure out the culture of the profession they'll end up joining and this stuff really entertains them.
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Sad but true: your papers are your hos and you need to pimp them to keep them working their hardest for you. Sling that ass! Talk it up, tell 'em how it will make them feel good and solve problem X that has troubled them. Encourage them to see that ho/paper as flexible and able to become whatever they want from it.
Hard to do in 2-3 short paragraphs, but when I started pimping my papers, I started having more success.
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Sad but true: your papers are your hos and you need to pimp them to keep them working their hardest for you. Sling that ass! Talk it up, tell 'em how it will make them feel good and solve problem X that has troubled them. Encourage them to see that ho/paper as flexible and able to become whatever they want from it.
Hard to do in 2-3 short paragraphs, but when I started pimping my papers, I started having more success.Is this a new meme I am unaware of?
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Undergrads want to be entertained. This is particularly true in LACs. You can be the least knowledgeable academic in the world but if you are a good entertainer, a smooth talker and make undergrads feel like they are getting an "interactive" learning experience, you will be loved. Bring cookies every once in a while. Undergrads dig this shit.
So true. But does this work for you for large classes as well. I regularly teach 200-300 kids and that's a LOT of cookies.
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I am from Asia, and all economics class I received are of the lecture type. I don't think it's a problem. My PhD classes in the US are of lecturing type too.
If you just lecture, you will get consistently "boring" on your evaluations. Find a way to engage them as this is the only way to succeed as a teacher and to get true satisfaction from the whole process.
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Oh. University students still follow you just because of your cookies?? That's so insulting! You treat them like dogs?
Give out cookies for correct answers to a question at large (with no duplicate winners). Ask enough to hand about 30 cookies. Not as much goodwill, but close (and keeps them entertained). Also rewards the better students
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I think I just puked in my mouth a little...
"the test of a good teacher is"Do you regard'learning'as a noun or a verb?If as a noun,as a thing to be possessed and passed long,then you present your truths,neatly packaged,to your students.But if you see'learnng' as a verb!--the process is different"