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Interesting Presentations: Effective Teaching?
My new director passed along a wonderful resource! I strongly recommend anyone in education spend 90 minutes to reflect and hear Eric’s presentation!
Short Summary:
Eric Mazur: “I thought I was a good teacher until I discovered my students were just memorizing information rather than learning to understand the material. Who was to blame? The students? The material? I will explain how I came to the agonizing conclusion that the culprit was neither of these. It was my teaching that caused students to fail! I will show how I have adjusted my approach to teaching and how it has improved my students’ performance significantly.” Eric Mazur is the Balkanski Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Harvard University. An internationally recognized scientist and researcher, he leads a vigorous research program in optical physics and supervises one of the largest research groups in the Physics Department at Harvard University.
Academic Quotes!
Some interesting quotes that I captured from a conference:
“It is easier to change the location of a cemetery, than to change the school curriculum”
Woodrow T. Wilson
“A quantity of lightweight engagements”
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