Questions tagged [lecture-teaching-method]
On the method of instruction known as "lecturing." Usually the lecturer will stand at the front of the room and recite information relevant to the lecture's content.
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Can someone do another Masters in Canada if you already have a Masters and PhD from the UK?
Can someone do another Masters in Canada if you already have a Masters and PhD from the UK?
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Advice for first time mathematics TA during the COVID-19 pandemic [closed]
I'm set to start my first year as a TA at a large R1 institution. My teaching assignment consists of being a TA for an honors calculus I section. This includes holding a weekly problem solving session ...
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Asking A Colleague for a Letter of Recommendation
I am working as an Assistant Professor at a university for over 2 years, but I am not happy with my current job and university. I want to apply to a university in another country (from where I've done ...
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How to handle students' disrespectfulness?
Related with this problem:
How to deal with unruly, unengaged students who complain about me?
After the chairman spoke to me, I started talking to my students softly (more than needed). I tried many ...
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Can NSF fund Lecturers?
This question is somewhat related to: How portable are NSF grants between institutions and internationally?
I am currently employed as Lecturer by a state university in the USA. I am a recent PhD and ...
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How to deal with students who refuse to do anything except take exams?
This is a follow up to my previous question. Some context:
I teach at a new Fachhochschule-type institute, where my course is 5-day, 1 hour/day course to 20+ students.
I am actively teaching, ...
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How to write good and effective lecture notes? [closed]
I am an undergraduate student. During the lectures the professors simply keep talking and at times write some stuff on the board. I am not sure when and what to write in my book. I am asking because I ...
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Is it ethical to use already existing material to complement teaching?
As background, I have a MSc in Chemical Engineering, and I am currently teaching in one of the first Fachhochschule-type institutes that have been established in my country. This institute stands as ...
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Alternatives to sewing (or any habit) to stay focused in class
I struggle with staying focused during lectures. However, while listening to online lectures, I started sewing and it has made life so much easier. I am able to listen and follow along. When the time ...
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Organizing time in a flipped classroom course
Suppose, to fix ideas, that I have a course that runs for 11-12 weeks with two 2-hour classes per week. There is no further time allocated in the timetable for recitations or TAs; both lectures and ...
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Remote lecturing: best software approach [duplicate]
With the recent outbreak of covid-19 many of us will need to think about remote means of teaching.
The option for me that seems ideal would be the capacity to broadcast exactly what is on my screen ...
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Alternatives to big-name proprietary remote-lecturing tools
As in many other universities, due to the coronavirus outbreak now we are supposed to do our teaching online in videoconference style. Our university suggests using either Microsoft Teams or Google ...
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Are my responsibilities as a lecturer the same as a teacher at school? [closed]
I am employed at an university in my country. I am teaching the statistic. The rule of the students is to spoon feed. That is, they expect the lecturer to care about them as if they are at high-school....
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Citations needed when using textbooks to write lecture notes/slides?
so basically I have recently started to teach my own course for the first time. In the past, I mainly taught professors in the department that were on leave etc and they normally supplied me with ...
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How to read/react to students' evaluation?
For my first course on CS topic (first course on the topic and not the first overall), I used the university evaluation system to ask students about their feedback.
In addition to responding to ...
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What is the necessary entity that cannot be done by professor without physical classroom with assembled students? [closed]
I want to know whether there is any necessary entity (quality/property) in the traditional classroom teaching that cannot be done without a physical classroom with intended students. Please keep aside ...
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Is the practice of keeping written papers or presentations for delivering lectures recommended?
Professors of my institution use PowerPoint presentations or written papers or some other aid material for delivering a lecture in the classroom.
But doesn't it indicate less expertise?
I have this ...
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Is it normal in Europe for graduate courses to be all in the evening?
I have been looking into master's programs in Spain. 95% of the Spanish programs I've been seeing tend to meet in the evening, with times like 3-6 PM or 6-9 PM. It's not clear to me whether this is ...
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A few students requesting to cancel lectures due to their personal reasons. What should I do?
I give lectures to postgraduate students. The number of students in this batch is very low (< 20). The lectures are foundation lectures for the course. We are only into the basics of the course.
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If the lecture room is usually full, is it appropriate for a TA to compete with the seat of students?
There is one topic in the course that I am TAing that I felt interested to re-learn (since I forgot most things about it). I also had some questions I want to ask about the topic (that could be ...
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How can I encourage good note-taking?
Often, college students do not always know what kinds of notes they should be taking.
How can I encourage students to take notes more efficiently and more effectively?
In one of my lecture-style ...
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Teaching subjects as an instructor which I scored average grades in
As a final year PhD student, I have been asked to teach a short introductory course on solid mechanics for undergrad students. Now, my PhD research has been applied mechanics where I developed tools ...
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Would preaching in a church be advantageous for becoming a lecturer?
In general, the job of a lecturer (under Australian terminology- I think the terminology is different in America) can be divided up into two main areas of focus: research and teaching, with the latter ...
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Should a TA point out a professor's mistake while attending their lecture?
I faced the following situation a few days back. I am doing my teaching assistance work under a professor.
I attended one of his classes as a TA during which he was teaching some technically wrong ...
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Coming up with an activity to replace a quiz
I will be teaching my first Calculus I class this fall (USA) and 5 percent of the grading is discretionary. Other sections are doing three quizzes over the course of the semester, with each taking ...
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How to attend conferences efficiently?
As a master's student, I've recently attended my first summer school. I waited for it eagerly since there would be learning about my research topic, interacting with other students and travelling. But ...
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How to teach an undergraduate course without having taken that course formally before?
I am in the final year of my PhD. My work was on using Finite element method to study tribology. It was completely modeling based. I developed various models and have gained quite expertise in ...
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how to develop a new course as a new Assistant Professor
I am writing to inquire some experiences/advices on developing a new course on my first semester (this fall) as an assistant professor in computer science.
At this moment I am aware of the course ...
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Software to help planning a course
I’m teaching a few classes next semester and feel scattered. Can you recommend some software to help me plan out a course so on each day I can see what topic I’m teaching, activities planned, homework ...
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What should I recommend for a foreign student with problems on the country language?
Later this week one of my undergrad classes have their first written test and one of the students is not from my country, and he said he's been having some problems both understanding my lectures and ...
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Quoting Keynes in a lecture
I am teaching mathematical statistics and part of this is large sample theory. I would like to discuss some methods that do not focus on asymptotics and refer to J. M. Keynes quote
In the long run, ...
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Mimic lecturing on blackboard, facing audience
I teach mathematics at MSc and PhD levels. My preferred method of teaching is old-fashioned: talking and writing on the blackboard at the same time.
Why? Because it has many advantages:
Handwriting: ...
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What is the difference between a lecture and a seminar?
I understand the main difference is the amount of active engagement of the students (questions, interaction, etc.).
But is there more, to describe the difference?
In a lecture there will be questions ...
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exam/teaching culture, possible abusive supervisor, research gatekeeping
Apologies for the length, I don't know how to make this shorter. I also don't know where else to turn for advice. :(
I've recently started an MA in what promises to be a brand new humanities ...
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How to encourage students to attend and participate in class?
I have seen a shrinking trend in the number of students coming to my classes and suspect that it's due to the large number of digital tools that are available to students.
What techniques can I ...
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Giving a test lecture, what should I keep in mind? [duplicate]
I hold a PhD in computer science. I've been travelling to conferences presenting my papers and sometimes as part of my teaching assistance duty, I had to give some very simple lectures to students.
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Preparing lecture notes and references?
I am a new teacher/lecturer in science, and I am preparing lecture notes for my module. I am putting together a lot of material coming from textbooks as well as borrowing material from other lecture ...
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A student keeps using a native language while asking questions in the class when the course is taught in English
I am assisting a statistics course in a university, and my main job in the course is conducting problem solving sessions. The course is taught in English, and students interact with me in English. ...
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Why do some professors not recommend any text books for a course?
I took a semester where a professor was teaching Statistics. He gave out no lecture materials nor the name of any text books.
When I asked him for a text book name, he gave me a name of a 900+ pages' ...
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Is it possible to sit in a class without registering it? [closed]
I wanted to know that whether it is possible to sit in a grad-level course or undergrad course without registering?
What should I do before going to the class? should I talk to the professor?
Is it ...
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Why do lecturers not just assume all students have read the book?
One thing I don't understand about lectures is why the lecturer covers the material that is already presented in the book and assigned as reading material to the students.
Is the assumption that ...
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What guarantee the validity and relevance of "grand" social sciences' theories? [closed]
During my undergraduate years, I took a variety of courses in social sciences, and was exposed to writings by famous thinkers like Freud, Habermas, Foucault, Claude Lévi-Strauss, as well as lesser-...
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Two lecturers, one course, one class [closed]
This is my first question here, so please correct me if I'm wrong in my way of asking.
My question is suggested directly by the title. In my college institution, for each subject, half of the ...
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How to reduce the distance between academics and students? [closed]
While this may appear a quite open-ended question I think it is quite pertinent for a large number of subjects.
Considering undergraduate classes, particularly for students who are coming straight ...
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Is it common to feel CS lectures useless as a CS major student? [closed]
I'm a computer science student who doesn't find lectures useful. I think self-studying is more useful and I should quit my degree in favour of a distant-learning degree. I've tried to convince my ...
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Appropriate way to discuss genetic conditions in a large lecture?
I want to cover the topic of achondroplasia, the most common form of dwarfism, in a large introductory biology lecture. How can I discuss it in an appropriately sensitive way, one that respects people ...
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Do online students deserve video content?
I teach different courses online and in person and expect all my students to read textbooks and web pages. The online students get an extra explanatory text every week that is meant to replace the ...
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What is the best way to address misinformation given in a lecture?
After having reviewed a similar question while looking for an answer to my own, I felt it did not get fully at the heart of my issue that I've come across. However I still feel that it has great ...
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Why am I taught theory that I have no idea how to apply in practice?
I am a third year Computer Science student. The question that I reach out to you with is featured in the title.
There are some lectures that make me ask such questions. For the sake of this discussion ...
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How to efficiently use time while preparing for a class?
I am a teaching assistant for multivariable calculus this semester. As an undergraduate, I took the course but we learned few. To add, it has been more than 5 years since I took the class. So, every ...
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