Student Guide Corner

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...

The following link will prove that if you scare enough students over enough years, you will wind up with your picture on the Internet: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-10/favorite-professors-richmonds-joe-hoyle ** I think one of the most detrimental myths of teaching is that a person has to be funny or easy or entertaining to be popular with students. I think this idea has ruined a lot of good teachers. I cannot even estimate how many teachers have told me over the past 42 years �if I try to hold the line and make the students work, they will dislike me and kill me on the student evaluations. Students only want teachers who make them laugh and give them A�s.� Students only want teachers who make them laugh and give them A�s. If that line is true, the future of education is truly bleak. Often, I believe that line is merely a scapegoat � not always, but often. What I think those folks are really saying is �whether it is true or not, the students believe that I am giving them ...