Feedback from College Students
A little before I finished the semester I was talking with a handful of college students about what's the most useful thing they are taking from my class, and if there's anything useful. The answers are both surprising and not surprising based on how I teach. One girl answered, "How to talk to people. Like with speaking and being confident." Another answered, "How to think. You know, like with context and everything." Another said, "Thinking deeper about these things." Good answers. The content itself is important, but the framework that it is put in is probably even more important, which is essentially the skill of teaching. A couple of times over the semester I had discussions in the class about how the students thought the class was going and how they thought it could be better. At the beginning the students were almost unanimous in that they wanted the class to be lectures with PowerPoint presentations and multiple choice exams. I told them rig...