[bksvol-discuss] Jus submitted
- From: "Liz Bottner" <liziswhatis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:31:31 -0500
Hi all,
I just submitted Good Teaching: A Guide for Students by Richard A. Watson. It
was a very clean scan, is about 48 or so pages and length, and should be an
easy validation. I have prevalidated it beforehand.
From the back cover:
From the back cover:
EDUCATION
From junior college to Ivy League university, the level of teaching ranges from
"great to awful," according to Richard A. Watson, who explains not only how to
survive but how to profit from and enjoy your college experience. To help
students make important personal choices- What school? What major? What
classes?-Watson discusses such broad areas as administrative structure,
institutional goals, and faculty aspirations.
Charging the student with the ultimate responsibility for learning, Watson
presents certain academic facts of life: teaching is not the primary concern of
either faculty or administration in most institutions; few professors on the
university level have had any training in teaching, and even fewer started out
with teaching as their goal; senior professors do not teach much-the higher the
rank and salary, the less time in the classroom-and those seeking tenure must
emphasize research to survive; and almost certainly, the bad teacher who is a
good researcher will get paid more than the good teacher who does not publish.
This is a book about good teaching and how to find it. Rejecting
the conventional wisdom that a professor devoted to research will not be good
in the classroom, Watson advises that you take classes from that "old bear" you
are afraid of, from the professor you may have been cautioned to avoid.
"Professors who are really devoted to research in their fields are the best
teachers," Watson counsels, "at least for students who know what they want and
are willing to give their all for it." The reason: "Most college professors are
where they are because they fell in love with a subject matter. They think
nothing else in the world is more important than learning it."
Liz
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