Oct

26

Guest Post: To Teach Or To Grade That Is The Question

October 26, 2009 | by Leah Schanke | 2 Comments

The following is a guest post from Arthur Lewin, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College. He can be reached at Arthur.Lewin@baruch.cuny.edu.
What does pedagogy and mathematical physics have in common? The Uncertainty Principle. Physics informs us it is impossible to accurately determine both the position and the momentum of a subatomic [...]

Oct

9

Guest Post: Why Not Tell Them about Grad School?

October 9, 2009 | by Leah Schanke | 1 Comment

The following is a guest post from Arthur Lewin, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College. He can be reached at Arthur.Lewin@baruch.cuny.edu.
We all have been there, and we would all like our students to go. Most, however, know next to nothing about graduate school since they are quite often the first [...]

Sep

9

Guest Post: Why Not Tap into Our Greatest Asset?

September 9, 2009 | by Leah Schanke | 6 Comments

The following is a guest post from Arthur Lewin, Associate Professor, Department of Black and Hispanic Studies at Baruch College. He can be reached at Arthur.Lewin@baruch.cuny.edu.
Why not tap into our great strength and distinction, our diversity? From 2001 to 2009 Baruch College has been ranked number one in the nation, in terms of student body [...]

Mar

22

Guest Post: Orpheus in the Businessworld ossia Thinking Outside the Box

March 22, 2009 | by Leah Schanke | 1 Comment

The following is a guest post from Dennis Slavin, Associate Provost for Faculty Development at Baruch College. He can be reached at Dennis.Slavin@baruch.cuny.edu.
About ten years ago the (then) executive director of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Harvey Seifter, approached me with a novel idea: a residency for Orpheus at Baruch College. Those of you who know [...]

Feb

10

What Will You Do Differently?

February 10, 2009 | by Leah Schanke | 2 Comments

One of the things I do at the end of my training classes is hand out a post assessment. Instead of asking what faculty and staff participants think of me as an instructor, I ask what they feel they are taking away with them as a result of attending the class. The goal is to [...]

Nov

7

Usefulness of Tests

November 7, 2008 | by Leah Schanke | 3 Comments

When the idea for a general teaching blog was first formed, David Birdsell, Dean of the School of Public Affairs here at Baruch College, made a great suggestion – writing posts on the face-to-face faculty development events such as our Master Teacher Series. Last week, Edward L. Deci, professor of psychology at the University of [...]

Oct

30

Increasing Student Participation – the Response Sheet

October 30, 2008 | by Leah Schanke | 8 Comments

For those of us who were painfully shy as children – “painful” really is the right word – we recall our teachers telling us that we must participate in class discussions. I still have my high school report cards – the most frequent comment is “needs to participate more.” I remember even being very shy [...]

Oct

16

Getting a Grip on Traditions

October 16, 2008 | by Leah Schanke | 1 Comment

Dennis Slavin, Associate Provost, is to be credited for this blog post’s title. We would like to direct you to a conversation between Dennis Slavin and Mikhail Gershovich, Director of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College, about teaching traditional essay structures at:
http://cac.ophony.org/2008/10/15/the-deadly-grip-of-tradition/
Below is a link to information on Student Writing at Baruch [...]

Sep

22

Writing Better Learning Objectives

September 22, 2008 | by Leah Schanke | 4 Comments

When I attended the Zicklin Business School Summer Teaching Seminar in 2007 (and again this year), the first thing I noticed was that the terms “learning goals” and “learning objectives” are used interchangeably. This seems to be the case throughout much of the College. From my training and experience in strategic management and following the [...]