Student Guide Corner

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...

I would like to invite everyone to attend the Southeast Regional meeting of the American Accounting Association in beautiful Asheville, North Carolina, (near where I grew up) on April 16 to April 18.   At the meeting, I will be leading a panel discussion on the topic of �Becoming a More Effective Classroom Teacher.�   In fact, if you have any questions that you think we should discuss, drop me a note at  Jhoyle@richmond.edu . Here is the original proposal that was submitted for this panel to give you an idea of the thought behind our discussion. **  In �What It Takes to Be Great,� in the October 30, 2006, issue of  Fortune  magazine, author Geoffrey Colvin makes the following assertion.   �In virtually every field of endeavor, most people learn quickly at first, then more slowly, and then stop developing completely.   Yet a few do improve for years and even decades, and go on to greatness.�   In  What the Best College...

  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...

As I have mentioned, I will be giving a presentation in Anaheim in August at the annual convention of the American Accounting Association.   I will be talking about this blog (and, hence, some of my ideas about teaching) for 75 minutes.   (When it comes to teaching, I can easily talk for many hours.) Over the last couple of years, I have written 166 entries on this blog.   I think some have been pretty good but others have been rather stupid.   In writing and in teaching, that is how it goes.   Perfection is never my goal.   I like to throw out a lot of ideas and hope that a reasonable number are helpful. My idea for this presentation in August is that I will talk about some of the blog entries that have been the most helpful to teachers out there in colleges around the world.   However, I can only guess at that.   So, I would like to enlist some help from YOU.   If you think that any of ...

I got the nicest email a few days ago from the president of the American Accounting Association:     � I am happy to give you some great news: you have been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Innovation in Accounting Education award for your blog, Joe Hoyle: Teaching -- Getting the Most From Your Students . The award was established to foster innovation and improvement in accounting education through �significant programmatic changes or a significant activity, concept, or set of educational materials.�� I was really thrilled.   As a result, I will make a 90 minute presentation on August 7 at the AAA annual meeting in Anaheim.    If you are going to be at that conference, I hope you will stop by.     And, I want to thank everyone who reads this blog for helping to spread the word.    We have now had 78,000 page views over the years and my guess is that most of those hits came from you guys telling other folks about the blog...