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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)
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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.
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Links
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The following are courtesy of Humberto G.
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Rutgers:
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- UCSB:
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Mathematical Association of America (MAA):
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Duke:
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MIT (The torch or the firehose, Book):
LINK ***** check it out!
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Purdue:Teaching Engineering
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The following are courtesy of Janani V.
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Hundreds of teaching tips from Honolulu
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U Oregon: teaching laboratory classes
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GMU Teaching Strategies Pointers
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The following links are courtesy of Lu Y.
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OSU Faculty and TA Development
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Stanford Teaching and Learning
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Eastern Kentucky University
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The following links are courtesy of Guanxi C.
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Univ. of Washington
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Teaching Reflective Skills
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Abelson and Greenspun- Teaching Software Engineering
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The following links are courtey of Lu Y.
- Teaching Electromagnetics
pdf
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Teaching Professional and Ethical Aspects of Electrical Engineering to a
Large Class
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Do Grades and Tests Predict Adult Accomplishment?
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Education Quotes,
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Teaching Problem Solving, J.E. Stice,
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Power point pitfalls
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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
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Tools for Teaching, Davis, B.G., Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993.
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Resources
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Teaching Guide for GSIs
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