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EE301 Teaching Techniques for Electrical Engineering
Fall 2008

Prof. Ronald Fearing
Office Hours (265M Cory) Tues 2-3 pm, Th 10-11, or email for appointment.


Current Quotes 12/10:

``Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.'' Chinese proverb (Courtesy of Lingkai Kong)

``Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.''- Albert Einstein (Courtesy of Ye Xu)

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything one learned in school. - Albert Einstein (Courtesy of I-Hsiang Wang)

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." - Dan Rather (Courtesy of Bagher Afsher)

``In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.'' - Jacques Barzun (Courtesy of Bagher Afsher)

"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one." - Malcolm S. Forbes (Courtesy of Bagher Afsher)

(Thank you everyone for the great quotes!)
Previous Quotes


Announcements

Suggestions from class on handling overload in labs. Lab Load

Teaching suggestions, philosophy, and techniques from good teachers.
What good teachers say about teaching
Previous Announcements

Goals:
1) Make teaching more rewarding for yourself and your students
2) Becoming a more effective communicator
3) Supporting, advice, guidance for GSIs

Methods:
1) learning best practices (tactics)
2) identifying underlying principles (strategy)
3) engineering new methods
4) trials, feedback, self-improvement
5) avoiding pitfalls

EE301 Course Requirements (P/NP) or (S/U)
  • Attendance and active participation in class. (>= 14/16 meetings). 2 minute ``nugget'' of the day report for each class. (Please contact instructor for a makeup assignment if you miss more than 2 classes.)
  • Weekly teaching log containing techniques tried, successes, failures, observations, questions, problems. Emailed to instructor by midnight Tuesday.
  • 10 minute mini-lecture to EE301 class on topic of your interest, using blackboard. Level should be understandable by a first year EECS undergrad.
  • Supply one quote (attributed or orginal) related to teaching or learning which you find compelling. (Quote can not already be on EE301 list.)
  • 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.




  • Course Schedule



    Date
    Topic



    8/27/08
    EE301 course overview, requirements, introductions. The Basics. Launch questions.



    9/3/08
    Discussion section pointers
    Vincent
    Lee
    Guan Xi
    Chen
    Sarah Swisher
    9/10/08
    Lab section pointers Ilya Gurin
    Lu
    Ye
    David
    Zats
    9/17/08
    Technology (Blackboard, etc) Noah
    Johnson-Walls
    Patrick
    Au
    Mitchell
    Kline
    9/24/08
    Engaging and Getting Feedback Barlas
    Oguz
    Ethan
    Johnson
    Shangliang Jiang
    10/1/08
    Office Hour Pointers Anthony
    Yeh
    Jaehyun
    Park
    Ye Xu

    10/8/08
    Ethics Humberto
    Gonzales

    John
    Crossley
    Lingkai
    Kong
    10/15/08
    Expecting and Ensuring Honesty


    10/22/08
    Matching Learning Styles David
    Zats
    Vinay Raj
    Hampapur


    10/29/08
    Designing Good Questions Brittany
    McClinton
    Matt
    Scullin


    11/5/08
    Teaching Synthesis vs. Analysis Marshal
    Miller
    I-Hsiang
    Wang
    Mehmet
    Akgul
    11/12/08
    Teaching Problem Solving; Novice vs. Expert Janani
    Vasudev
    Bagher
    Afshar
    Evan
    Reutzel
    11/19/08
    Teaching Problem Solving II
    Teaching Problem Solving, J.E. Stice
    Jaesok
    Jeon


    11/26/08
    No Class


    12/3/08
    Ethics Case Studies
    Ethics in Teaching
    Negotiating the TA-Student Relationship



    12/10/08
    Lessons Learned from Teaching
    Six Ways to Discourage Learning
    Learning by Doing: The philosophy and strategies of active learning







    Links


    The following are courtesy of Humberto G.

    1. Rutgers: LINK
    2. UCSB: LINK
    3. Mathematical Association of America (MAA): LINK
    4. Duke: LINK
    5. MIT (The torch or the firehose, Book): LINK ***** check it out!
    6. Purdue:Teaching Engineering LINK ****

    The following are courtesy of Janani V.

    1. Hundreds of teaching tips from Honolulu LINK
    2. U Oregon: teaching laboratory classes LINK
    3. GMU Teaching Strategies Pointers LINK

    The following links are courtesy of Lu Y.

    1. OSU Faculty and TA Development LINK
    2. Stanford Teaching and Learning LINK
    3. Eastern Kentucky University LINK

    The following links are courtesy of Guanxi C.

    1. Univ. of Washington LINK
    2. Teaching Reflective Skills LINK
    3. Abelson and Greenspun- Teaching Software Engineering LINK

    The following links are courtey of Lu Y.

    1. Teaching Electromagnetics pdf
    2. Teaching Professional and Ethical Aspects of Electrical Engineering to a Large Class pdf
    3. Do Grades and Tests Predict Adult Accomplishment? pdf
  • Education Quotes, LINK
  • Teaching Problem Solving, J.E. Stice, LINK
  • Power point pitfalls LINK
  • How to create memorable lectures. LINK
  • R.P. Boas, Can we make Mathematics Intelligible? LINK
  • A teachers dozen: Fourteen general, research-based principles for improving higher learning in our classrooms. AAHE Bulletin 45 (8): 313. LINK
  • B. Gross Davis, L. Wood, and R.C. Wilson, A Berkeley Compendium of Suggestions for Teaching with Excellence LINK
  • Tools for Teaching, Davis, B.G., Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993. LINK
  • Problem solving in New Caledonia Crows TrapTube / MetaTool / Tool Making

  • Resources
    Teaching Guide for GSIs LINK