EE301, Fall 2010
Teaching Techniques for Electrical Engineering
Wednesday: 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Hogan Room (521 Cory)
This course will consist of 11 classes of 1.5 hours each.
First class, Sept. 1st last class (probably) Nov. 9th.
EE301 Course Requirements (P/NP) or (S/U):
- Attendance and active participation in class. (>= 9/11 meetings).
- 2 minute nugget of the day report for each class, describing
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what you learned from that day’s lecture ;
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constructive evaluation of mini-lectures;
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teaching log containing techniques tried, successes, failures, observations, questions, problems. To be emailed to instructor no later than 24 hours after each lecture.
- 10 – 15 minute mini-lecture to EE301 class on a technical topic of your interest, using blackboard. Level should be understandable by a first year EECS undergrad.
- 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.
Goals:
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Make teaching more rewarding for yourself and your students
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Becoming a more effective communicator
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Supporting, advice, guidance for GSIs
Methods:
- learning best practices (tactics)
- identifying underlying principles (strategy)
- engineering new methods
- trials, feedback, self-improvement
- avoiding pitfalls
Course Information
Academic Dishonesty Policy
Teaching Related Workshops at Cal
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Lecturer:
Professor Avideh Zakhor
507 Cory Hall
Phone: (510) 643-6777
avz@eecs.berkeley.edu
Office Hours:
By appointment in 507 Cory Hall
Teaching Assistant:
Rick Garcia
Email: rrgarcia@EECS.Berkeley.EDU
Instructional Support Assistant:
Rosita Alvarez-Croft
288 Cory Hall
(510) 643-4976
rosita@eecs.berkeley.edu
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