09.10.07
Day in the Life: Teaching Fellow Orientation today
I’m fond of saying that “Sepetember is a the cruelest month” for a preceptor (apologies to T.S. Eliot). Next week is the first week of classes, but now that the freshmen are here we are in the “Opening Days” period that ramp up to the academic year.
Today we have our annual teaching fellow orientation. We’ve developed a set of activities that we hope will get our graduate students and postdocs excited and prepared for teaching calculus, including:
- Selections from popular movies on teaching
- A multiple-choice “pop quiz” on teaching choices
- “The Preceptor Players Present”–Case studies in the form of skits
- Chinese Food!!
Should be a good time.
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Westwood College Student said,
September 10, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Hello Preceptor,
Orientation is one of the happiest experiences I noticed for a lot of freshmen. It’s usually the first time they have left their parents and are feeling free from everything. They are going to have fun answering movie questions about popular movies about teaching. I’m am sure you are going to have Good Will Hunting questions in there because it is Harvard. Well have a fun time with the orientation of Freshmen today.