I was paid perhaps the biggest compliment of my professional career two days ago: a good* student of mine said that I should teach engineering. When I asked him why, he replied that he would be taking engineering next year and he wanted me as his teacher.
Best feeling ever.
* He is not a good student because of his comment - he was good on his own merit before he said anything!
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Self-improvement
As I sit here on the eve of my second semester, it occurs to me that I have two big problems: understanding what I need to work on most, and how to work on those things.
I need to improve my own teaching, I'm sure. But which things do I target? How do I prioritize the list? How do I go about improving?
I feel like I should work on improving the class itself. But what to work on, how to prioritize, and what course of action to take are the big issues.
It's not that I can't think of a single thing to work on, it's that there are so many candidates I'm not sure where to start. My focus over the next month will be to get a clear vision on what/how to improve. I suppose that'll be the purpose of this blog too: to track both the plan and the progress against it.
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