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Re: the "lecture" lecture
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Oct 14, 1995 11:34 AM
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Re: the "lecture" lecture
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Oct 6, 1995 6:45 AM
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From Rebecca Corwin: >One of my favorite mathematics (not math ed) colleagues decided to teach her >courses in other styles than lecture and demonstration. She was quite >shocked at how hard it was to work through issues like grading, groupwork, >efficiency, etc. Those are the issues our students have to deal with if they >try alternative ways, and if we advocate alternatives, we need to have FELT >the dilemmas it brings up, so we don't dismiss them as trivial. They're not!
Amen. and Amen again. I know that others have worked through these issues for themselves but each time I try something new I feel I have to reinvent the wheel for myself because the new things I am trying (and want my pre-service teachers to try) I have no experience with.
Murphy
--------------------- Murphy Waggoner Department of Mathematics Simpson College 701 North C Street Indianola, IA 50125 waggoner@storm.simpson.edu ---------------------
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