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January 29, 2007
Joe Hoyle, Master Teacher
Last week, Bill Beville, the Prentice-Hall sales professional in eastern Virginia, introduced me to Joe Hoyle, the David Meade White Distinguished Teaching Fellow in the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.
Joe is a veritable fountain of great ideas on teaching. He's published a (free for download) book on Tips and Thoughts on Improving Teaching which you can download from here. The book has 35 days worth of exercises and thoughts for teaching. Although Joe teaches financial accounting, all of his thoughts are pertinent to those of us who teach MIS.
One of Joe's ideas is to ask the students who earned an A in his class to write a memo to future students explaining how to obtain an A. A sample of one term's memos is here.
Joe doesn't want to waste the first class period, so he sends an email to his students before their first class meeting. In that email he describes his expectations, sets out classwork ethics standards, provides other class background, and gives the first assignment. He wants to start everyone off with an expectation of hard work.
I'll be featuring more of his ideas here, but if you're intrigued, it's well worth downloading his book.
Thanks to Bill for the introduction and to Joe for being so generous with his materials!
Posted by DavidK at January 29, 2007 09:24 AM | Permalink