Passion in Action
I spent 10 minutes explaining to my Theatre Appreciation about how Vladamir Nemirovich-Danchenko and Ludwig Chronegk have found themselves in the similar situation where history has now begun to believe that they had much more influence over their relatively famous counterparts, Stanislavski and Saxe-Meiningen respectively, than was ever originally thought. This argument excites me. It [...]
Active Learning: The Student Generated Syllabus
I had been hearing the term “student generated course content” off and on for about a year when last fall rolled around. The idea had intrigued me but I was having some trouble wrapping my brain around just exactly how it would work, let alone how students would respond to it. It was fortuitous then, [...]
Learning is Messy
I had a student that had missed the first several days of class and it was only my busy schedule that had not landed them on the drop list. They showed up to class and I decided to leave out chatting with that particular student until after class. Lecture for that days was dramatic structure, [...]
Professionalism Points: Why I Hate the First Day of Class, Part 1
When I started teaching, I modeled a lot of my methods off of the classes that I had taken as an undergraduate. This worked well, for the most part. But semester after semester something sat uneasy with me. I hated the first day of classes. This feeling was in direct conflict with another feeling. I [...]
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