Teaching Philosophy: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 23:44, 13 August 2015

Negative feedback loop of context deeper into field, losing contact with everyone else

Philosophy of teaching

Teaching style

The bigger picture

This is about more than a "bag of tricks"
This is about solving, one person at a time, the problem of diversity in technology
Negative feedback loop, as get deeper into technical field, losing touch with context, fewer can follow, self-selective process
Process of engineering education is the process of teaching students how to think critically, how to observe and analyze, how to build mental models.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-When I began in STEM, I thought, foolishly, that developing deep expertise in a subject would also, naturally, lead to an ability to better explain the field.
+Negative feedback loop of context deeper into field, losing contact with everyone else
-This was foolish, of course, because what actually happens is, as a person's knowledge of a field becomes deeper, they begin to lose their sense of context, and so don't know what kind of background information to provide versus what to skip over.
+Philosophy of teaching
+* STEm require up front explanation of principles in myriad ways
+* abstractions to tackle complicated subjects
+* intuit their way around new ideas
+Teaching style
+* tackle complicated subjects
+* distill very large body of materials into essentials
+* intuitive way, visual abstractions, intuition pumps
+The bigger picture
+* This is about more than a "bag of tricks"
+* This is about solving, one person at a time, the problem of diversity in technology
+* Negative feedback loop, as get deeper into technical field, losing touch with context, fewer can follow, self-selective process
+* Process of engineering education is the process of teaching students how to think critically, how to observe and analyze, how to build mental models.