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From: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Ph.D.'s and Teaching
Message-ID: <2063@pdn.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 21:26:07 GMT
References: <2144@uvacs.CS.VIRGINIA.EDU> <115@mccc.UUCP> <3469@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> <429@sdcc15.UUCP> <261@tmsoft.UUCP> <135@mccc.UUCP>
Reply-To: reggie@pdn.UUCP (George W. Leach)
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In article <135@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:

>Another thing you might do is pick a student and ask him a question about
>something you mentioned in the simplest part of the class meeting.

     I never like this as a student and felt that it was not appropriate to
put people on the spot in a classroom setting.  Some people just are not that
comfortable when they are arbitrarily picked out of a class to answer a 
question in front of the entire class.  The only thing this technique will
succeed in is driving students out of the class to the registrar's office to
fill out a drop/add form.  Of course, there are some instructors who prefer
it that way.  It cuts down on the number of papers they have to grade :-)


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