Thoughts, Theory, and Reflection on Graduate Student Teaching
Telling them that if everybody does it we can count the time as transferred (i.e., make the day shorter). Only one participant didn’t do it!
Encourage participants to read and respond to each others’ comments – made it feel productive, less like busy work
Call out things that people might have in common (cats vs. dogs, colour of shoes, birth month, etc.)
People self-organize into groups. Each new group, they have to introduce themselves to everybody, even if they’ve already met.
I remembered everybody’s names for the first time!
Check the summative feedback forms on Day 1 – we had the wrong ones and handed them out without realizing!
Used one lesson plan for all of the lesson basics 2.0 sessions (learning objectives, motivation, etc.) – participants added to it throughout each lesson and they really seemed to get how all of these elements fit together
Questioning techniques – spent some time on Socratic questioning which really worked
Leading discussions – left debate to the end so they were comfortable, small groups as teams, so they were comfortable with each other and competitive!