Berkeley, Wednesday December 12, 2018 12:16 PM It might sound a weak closing remarks of the book, but actually is simple and powerful, everyone cares about teaching, and everyone things that they do a little more for it than the next one in line, from professors through department chairs, to deans, provosts, and presidents. They […]
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Annotations from Chapter 7, How do they treat their students?, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Wednesday December 12, 2018 11:55 AM Assessing students The teachers in the study used assessment to help students to learn, not just to rate and rank their efforts. Practices Evaluation is use to find out as much as possible about their students, “not so I can make judgements about them,” one instructor explained, “but […]
Annotations from Chapter 6, How do they treat their students?, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Wednesday December 12, 2018 11:28 AM In an interview to one of the professors of the study, he said: “The most important aspect of my teaching is the relationship of trust that develops between me and my students” That trust meant that the teachers believed students wanted to learn, and they assumed until proven […]
Annotations from Chapter 5, How do they conduct class?, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Tuesday December 11, 2018 10:03 PM Bain (2004) identified seven common principles in the teachers that were part of his study. 1. Create Natural Critical Learning Environment People tend to learn most effectively when (i) they are trying to solve problems that they find intriguing, beautiful, or important; (ii) they are able to do […]
Annotations from Chapter 4, What the best college teachers do, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Sunday, November 4, 2018 10:20 PM Chapter 4. What do the best teachers expect from their students? As a tradition with previous chapters, I still want to write here my take-aways and annotations I remember from this chapter, although, I finished it one week ago. Take aways: Avoid stereotype a group of people of […]
Annotations from Chapter 3, What the best college teachers do, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Saturday, October 27, 2018 5:00 PM Chapter 3 challenges the reader with 13 questions about how to prepare the material, syllabus, challenge traditional methods, be flexible, empower students, facilitated their learning, and have an influence in their self-steem. I am not going to cover all the 13 questions here, but some important aspects from […]
Annotations from Chapter 2, What the best college teachers do, Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Monday, October 22, 2018 10:17 AM My take-aways from this chapter is how do we learn. Before explaining the main four types of learners, I want to say that the chapter was built about an example of students learning as Aristotelian physicists and Newtonian and how to questions themselves. I did not fully grasped […]
Chapter 1: Defining the best. What the best college teachers do. Bain, 2004.
Berkeley, Wednesday October 17, 2018 10:55 AM Chapter summary of chapter 1 of the book Bain, K., 2011. What the best college teachers do. Harvard University Press, pp. 1-21 Chapter 1. Introduction: Defining the best My take-aways Bain evaluated defined the best college professors not based on their performance in class, neither in the course evaluations, […]
How was the talk today? Oh, where did the audience go?
Berkeley, Wednesday, October 3, 2018 3:30 PM Know your audience, but how, when invited? I run a colloquium of series of Lectures in Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning. I receive speakers every week. Some of them has spoken to a filled classroom, which capacity is 25 students. Some others, like today, Rafa, started with 20 […]
Life experiences in a duck shaped curve. I welcome a frequent recurrence of the curve. Thus, the lifetime curve has a sinusoidal shape.
Berkeley, Tuesday, September 25, 2018 2:14 PM Fig. 1 is a more detailed version from a chart that I was instructed about what to expect during my academic journey in my program. I was instructed about it in a Fulbright orientation seminar ‘Pre-departure’, in Quito, Ecuador. I think the exact date was June 9, 2016. […]
