Archive for October, 2015
Valerie Walker: I’m a Gustie and This is How I Teach
Valerie Walker Assistant Professor in Education What classes do you regularly teach? Literacy for the K-12 Teacher; Elementary Social Studies Methods; Elementary Language Arts Methods (and a summer gig called “Economics for the Elementary Teacher”) What’s the best advice about teaching you’ve ever received? Don’t just assign students work–take responsibility for teaching them to go […]
Joel Carlin: I’m a Gustie and This is How I Teach
Joel Carlin Associate Professor in Biology and Co-chair (Student affairs) in Environmental Studies What classes do you regularly teach? FTS100 First Term Seminar: Pirates, Explorers, and Sea Monsters BIO101 Principles of Biology BIO102 Organismal Biology BIO383 Aquatic Biology BIO385 Evolutionary Biology What’s the best advice about teaching you’ve ever received? Don’t teach your subject, because it’s too broad […]
Deb Pitton: I’m a Gustie and This is How I Teach
Deb Pitton Professor and Chair in Education What classes do you regularly teach? EDU 399, (Student Teaching Seminar) EDU 368 (AVID tutoring /practicum for secondary ed majors) and Supervision of Student Teachers What’s the best advice about teaching you’ve ever received? Students learn more from doing than from hearing. Tell us about your favorite topic or course […]
Jill Locke: I’m a Gustie and This is How I Teach
Jill Locke Professor in Political Science and Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies What classes do you regularly teach? POL 160: Political and Legal Thinking; POL/GWS 285: Sex, Power, and Politics; POL 275: The Promise of Political Freedom; POL 380: Feminist Political Thought; and POL 399: Senior Seminar, which I have most recently taught on the political theory of […]