HOW CAN WE DO BETTER? AN ASSIGNMENT
As I write this entry, I am in the middle of giving my second Financial Accounting test of the semester. The students are sweating away at this very moment. If you would like to receive a copy of the test just to see how another teacher asks questions, drop me an email at Jhoyle@richmond.edu . ** I was asked recently to give a presentation here at the University of Richmond to explain my long-time use of the Socratic Method. There was clearly a lot of curiosity because faculty showed up from all across campus: biology, chemistry, computer science, English, history, law, political science, and more. I sense that our faculty members (or maybe just faculty in general) truly want to look at alternative ways of teaching in hopes of getting away from a lecture and memorize model in order to move more toward the development of critical thinking skills by the students. Or, maybe they all just came for the free lunch. I had a marv...