Student Guide Corner

From Joe Hoyle:   On January 1, 2013, and again on June 1, 2013, I wrote entries on this blog about my experience at linking a Government Accounting course with a Victorian Literature class.   I found it to be an interesting experiment with some excellent outcomes.    If you want to read more about what we did, the following link will take you to an article in the online version of the Chronicle of Higher Education.     If you have followed this blog for long, you know that I am a strong proponent of experimentation in education.    This one did not require a committee or a mandate or a strategic plan.    We thought the idea might work and (with the support of my dean) we just tried it to see.   I believe college education would certainly improve with more such interesting experiments. http://chronicle.com/article/Victorian-Literature-for/139971/ ** Since I have already referred to Victorian Literature above, I will make a...

As I have mentioned before, on August 7, 2013, I will be giving a 75 minute presentation about this blog at the Annual Convention of the American Accounting Association in Anaheim, California.   If you are going to be at the convention, I hope you�ll stop by and chat.    I�d love to meet each and every one of the people who read these essays.   I�ll be there for several days so let�s get together over coffee and talk about teaching.    In preparing for this talk, I have gone back and looked at some of the 170 posts that I have written over the years.    To me, it is interesting how many of these posts push teachers (including me) to think about the last day of class and what the teachers want their students to have accomplished.    Until you visualize what you want your students to do by the end of the semester, it is hard to know how to guide them.    Over and over, you see that theme in my thoughts on teaching.    Y...

Before I get started today, I want to mention that this blog went over 83,000 page views a few days ago.   I truly am thrilled by that level of traffic and wanted (as always) to thank everyone who passes along the URL to someone else.   I believe that we teachers CAN improve teaching in this country and in this world but only by being willing to share ideas and resources.    We need to think and talk more about teaching, learning, and education.    There should be genuine joy and excitement in the exchange of teaching/learning thoughts.    I hope the blog encourages those activities. ** Two nights ago, my wife and I went to see the play �Red� here in Richmond about the artist Mark Rothko and his paintings.   It was an excellent play and I enjoyed it all.   But there was one very short section that I have thought about 1,000 times over the last 48 hours.    In the play, Rothko is talking about how he learned to become an artist ...