Aaron Daniel Annas and I converse about how we have calibrated our teaching over time.

Podcast Notes

Calibrating our Teaching

Aaron Daniel Annas

Assistant professor of cinema arts

Faculty Director of the Vanguard Sundance Program

Reflections on year one

Bonni reflects on her first year

Taking things personally (a good lesson on how to avoid this is to hear Cheating Lessons author, James Lang, on episode #043)

Aaron Daniel reflects on his first few semesters

You’re not giving someone a grade; they’re earning a grade.

Calibrating your teaching

• Importance of setting expectations
• Stressing the whys as you raise the level of challenge
• Realize they aren’t likely to thank you during the process of being challenged
• Bonni’s post: The Dip
• Atherton J.S.’s post: Course of a course
• Essentialism: The disciplined pursuit of less, by Greg McKeown
• Determining what hours to have direct contact with students should be allowed
• TextExpander  (Mac) |  Breevy (Windows)

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