Student Guide Corner

As some of you might know, besides being a college professor, I am a cofounder and president of CPAreviewforFREE.com.    In that role, I send out email lessons to about 20,000 past and future CPA candidates two or three times each month.    These lessons talk about how to pass the CPA Exam and, hopefully, encourage and assist those candidates in achieving their goal.    I�ve actually written these motivational email lessons now (off and on) for nearly 20 years.    The following blog entry is adapted from a recent one of those lessons.    Obviously, I�ve changed the goal from �pass the CPA Exam� to �become a better teacher� but I believe that this basic message applies to teachers just as much as it does to CPA Exam candidates.    Success is success whenever you face a genuine challenge. ** Two to four times each year, over the past 10-12 years, I have given presentations around the country on teaching.    I am always ...

  As I have mentioned several times in the last few months, this blog is receiving an innovation award at the American Accounting Association annual meeting that will be held next month in Anaheim.   As part of that program, on Wednesday, August 7, I will make a 90 minute presentation (2:00 until 3:30 p.m.).     Because this blog is about improving teaching, I assume the presentation should be about improving teaching.    There will be hundreds of research presentations in Anaheim; however, at least this one will be a teaching presentation. I realize that 99 percent of the people (maybe 100 percent) who read this blog will not be able to attend my session in Anaheim.    So, today, I want to talk with you about how I plan to start that program and why.    You can pretend you are in Anaheim in August (at a hotel next to Disneyland).    If I want to have any real impact during my 90 minutes, I need to get the attendees mental...