Student Guide Corner

Final Invitation:   If you are attending the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association this summer in Chicago, I will be participating in two different panel presentations on teaching on Monday, August 10.  One is at 2 p.m. and the other is at 4 p.m.   I would love to have everyone there as several of us chat about the challenges of becoming a better classroom teacher.  I think both presentations will be great fun.   I will be around for the entire conference so don�t hesitate to grab me if you have a question or a suggestion. ** Please send an email to Jhoyle@richmond.edu if you would like for me to alert you whenever I post a new essay on this blog. ** If you have read my blog over the years, you already know that I believe communication between teacher and student is one of the most important aspects of good teaching.   You can increase both student enthusiasm and comprehension by careful communication.   You can...

Does assistive technology make a difference? Don't take my word for it. Ask the fifth-grade student who typically took four months to read one book and was finally able to read four books in one month because of her use of technology ( VoiceDream Reade r with Bookshare membership). She recommended books to her friends. How do you think she felt being able to do that for the first time ever? Ask the high school student  with written expression challenges who received support through the Insert Comments feature in Google Docs. He stated, "I'm getting help when I'm writing instead of after I'm done."  Ask the high school autistic student who up until that time was dependent on others for being his voice since he wasn't provided with the technology he needed. For the first time, he could use his device and finally tell someone, "Leave me alone!"  Ask the elementary age student who had a meltdown any time he was asked to write. He used recording tec...

Repeat of My Earlier Invitation:   If you are attending the annual meeting of the American Accounting Association this summer in Chicago, I will be participating in two different panel presentations on teaching on Monday, August 10.  One is at 2 p.m. and the other is at 4 p.m.   I would love to have you there as several of us chat about the challenges of becoming a better classroom teacher.  If you are interested, grab me after the panel presentations and we can continue the discussion.   ** I have written several times over the years about my basic distrust of student evaluations.   Based on the ones that I have seen, here are some of my issues: (1) � Students are not encouraged to spend enough serious time considering the questions and their responses.   Some students clearly give an appropriate amount of thought and make helpful observations.   Many students appear to dash off their opinions as if they were late fo...