"How to Make Great Teachers"
Abstract: What are great teachers? The answer has changed over the past 100 years, and in recent times people have focused on precise answers under the banner of objectivity and accountability. But measuring effective teaching in this way may be misleading, and it may adversely affect the very quality we set out to measure. Great teachers leave a legacy over many decades, not a few months, and measuring great teachers requires a long-term perspective. This talk will be largely about mathematics teaching in secondary schools, but many of the observations are equally applicable to other subjects.
There will be refreshments prior to the talk, in Seeley Mudd 208, and dinner (reservations required-- e-mail awtorrey@amherst.edu) following in O'Connor Commons.
For more information, see www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/mathematics/news.
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