Word: classrooms
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Many professors refrain from broadcasting lectures on the Internet because of the fear that students will stop attending the lecture and replace the classroom experience with watching the lectures on the web. This is not a legitimate fear. The lectures broadcast on the web cannot compete with class for two reasons: First, lectures are broadcast three or four days after the class. Students interested in doing well on the Friday problem sets will want to attend the lectures that week...
Finally, undergraduates should consider the important roles that TFs play in their education. At Yale, the TF union was the primary voice in favor of small section sizes, English-language training for foreign TFs and improved teacher training overall. Better working conditions for graduate students mean better classroom conditions for undergraduates. Undergraduates help themselves when they champion TF concerns...
...High is decked out in the traditional pink dress and golden stole of ancient Rome. She bursts into a third-grade classroom and greets her students: "Salvete, omnes!" (Hello, everyone!) The kids respond in kind, and soon they are studying derivatives. "How many people are in a duet?" High asks. All the kids know the answer, and when she asks how they know, a boy responds, "Because duo is 'two' in Latin." High replies, "Plaudite!" and the 14 kids erupt in applause. They learn the Latin root later, or side, and construct such English words as bilateral and quadrilateral. "Latin...
...1800s, their mission was clear: to teach females, who were largely excluded from higher education. And even as more institutions opened their doors to both genders, studies found that many women learned more in a female-only environment, where, among other benefits, there were no men to dominate classroom discussions. But what's to become of women's colleges now, as a new generation of female students has confidently outperformed males since elementary school and become the majority at most mainstream colleges and universities...
...think I'm very good in the performance aspect [of teaching]," he said. "I speak in a monotone, forget where I'm going [with a certain point], only look at one side of the classroom. I find my talking and teaching totally unbearable," he says...