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EE301 Teaching Techniques for Electrical Engineering
Spring 2009

Prof. Ronald Fearing
Office Hours (265M Cory) Tues 2-3 pm, Th 10-11, or email for appointment.

Current Quotes 4/8

"Owl," said Rabit shortly, "you and I have brains. The others have fluff. If there is any thinking to be done in this Forest- and when I say thinking, I mean thinking - you and I must do it" -Rabbit (Character from Winnie the Pooh Stories by A.A. Milne) (Courtesy of Vinayak Nagpal)

"To teach is to learn twice." -- Joseph Joubert (courtesy of Jaehyun Park)

(Courtesy of Tim Bakishev)
"A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep" - Anonymous.
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever" - Gandhi.


Previous Quotes

Announcements

2/5/09 Debugging checklist

Teaching suggestions, philosophy, and techniques from good teachers.
What good teachers say about teaching
Previous Announcements

Goals:
1) Make teaching more rewarding for yourself and your students
2) Becoming a more effective communicator
3) Supporting, advice, guidance for GSIs

Methods:
1) learning best practices (tactics)
2) identifying underlying principles (strategy)
3) engineering new methods
4) trials, feedback, self-improvement
5) avoiding pitfalls

EE301 Course Requirements (P/NP) or (S/U)
  • Attendance and active participation in class. (>= 13/15 meetings). 2 minute ``nugget'' of the day report for each class. (Please contact instructor for a makeup assignment if you miss more than 2 classes.)
  • Weekly teaching log containing techniques tried, successes, failures, observations, questions, problems. Emailed to instructor by midnight Tuesday.
    Format of teaching log:
    For your teaching log, please describe at least one interesting:
    technique, experience, question, problem, insight, or issue
    which arose this week.

  • 10 minute mini-lecture to EE301 class on topic of your interest, using blackboard. Level should be understandable by a first year EECS undergrad.
  • Supply one quote (attributed or orginal) related to teaching or learning which you find compelling. Briefly explain to class why you chose this quote.
  • Honest and ethical conduct. All work submitted to the class must be your own or attributed. The penalty for unethical conduct will a grade of U or NP and a letter will be written to your department file and the campus Office of Student Conduct.




  • Course Schedule



    Date
    Topic
    Lecture #1 
    Lecture #2   
    Lecture #3   
    1/21/09
    EE301 course overview, requirements, introductions. The Basics. Launch questions.


                     
    1/28/09
    Discussion section pointers

               
                         

    2/4/09
    Lab section pointers

    Sarah W-S
    2/11/09
    Technology (Blackboard, etc) David
    McGrogan
    John
    Heron
    2/18/09
    Engaging and Getting Feedback Nathan
    Tom
    Vinayak
    Nagpal
    Thura Lin
    Naing
    2/25/09
    Six Ways to Discourage Learning
    Learning by Doing: The philosophy and strategies of active learning
    Jodi
    Iwata
    Don
    Frederick
    David
    Chen
    3/4/09
    Office Hour Pointers Sanket
    Alekar
    Jaehyun
    Park
    Yu
    Gan
    3/11/09
    Ethics Case Studies
    Ethics in Teaching
    Negotiating the TA-Student Relationship
    Jiwoong
    Lee
    Vadim
    Karagodsky
    Arash
    Jamshidi
    3/18/09
    Expecting and Ensuring Honesty
    Ben
    Smith
    Tim
    Bakishev
    4/1/09
    Matching Learning Styles 
    R.P. Boas, Can we make Mathematics Intelligible?
    Dusan
    Stepanovic
    Haifei
    Cheng
    Tsung-Te
    Liu
    4/8/09
    Teaching Synthesis vs. Analysis
    Teaching Novice vs. Expert problem solving




    4/15/09
    Teaching Problem Solving
    Teaching Problem Solving, J.E. Stice




    4/22/09
    Lessons Learned from Teaching



    4/29/09
    Optional topics



    5/6/09

    Optional topics






    Links


    The following are courtesy of Humberto G.

    1. Rutgers: LINK
    2. UCSB: LINK
    3. Mathematical Association of America (MAA): LINK
    4. Duke: LINK
    5. MIT (The torch or the firehose, Book): LINK ***** check it out!
    6. Purdue:Teaching Engineering LINK ****

    The following are courtesy of Janani V.

    1. Hundreds of teaching tips from Honolulu LINK
    2. U Oregon: teaching laboratory classes LINK
    3. GMU Teaching Strategies Pointers LINK

    The following links are courtesy of Lu Y.

    1. OSU Faculty and TA Development LINK
    2. Stanford Teaching and Learning LINK
    3. Eastern Kentucky University LINK

    The following links are courtesy of Guanxi C.

    1. Univ. of Washington LINK
    2. Teaching Reflective Skills LINK
    3. Abelson and Greenspun- Teaching Software Engineering LINK

    The following links are courtey of Lu Y.

    1. Teaching Electromagnetics pdf
    2. Teaching Professional and Ethical Aspects of Electrical Engineering to a Large Class pdf
    3. Do Grades and Tests Predict Adult Accomplishment? pdf
  • Education Quotes, LINK
  • Teaching Problem Solving, J.E. Stice, LINK
  • Power point pitfalls LINK
  • How to create memorable lectures. LINK
  • R.P. Boas, Can we make Mathematics Intelligible? LINK
  • A teachers dozen: Fourteen general, research-based principles for improving higher learning in our classrooms. AAHE Bulletin 45 (8): 313. LINK
  • B. Gross Davis, L. Wood, and R.C. Wilson, A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence LINK
  • Tools for Teaching, Davis, B.G., Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993. LINK

  • Videos
  • Problem solving in New Caledonia Crows TrapTube / MetaTool / Tool Making

  • Prof. Richard Feynman on teaching. LINK
  • Resources
    Teaching Guide for GSIs LINK