At least Timothy Leary chose to drop out…
I think I understand Leary’s choices, or at least the temptation: It’s the end of two very tiring days, when I had a chance to talk for a few hours with one of the folks who tore down Florida’s old Pork Chop Gang. Short story: an undergraduate I’ve been mentoring for a few semesters had […]
Evaluating college teaching
Since my energy is now sapped, I’ll address Eduwonkette‘s four questions from yesterday: 1) How should learning be evaluated in college? There are two separate questions (what did individual students learn? and what did groups of students learn?), though I think Eduwonkette is asking more about personnel evaluation. The first two can be evaluated using […]
John Merrow – The Influence of Teachers
Your assignment for the weekend: Read Merrow’s piece in Independent School Magazine (hat tip). Extra credit: craft a humanistic essay that opposes Merrow’s central argument about the role of teachers (you’ll find that quite a challenge).