CandidProf: an effort to motivate (cont’d)
July 10, 2008 by Miki Saxon
CandidProf is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at a state university. He’ll be sharing his thoughts and experience teaching today’s students anonymously every Thursday— anonymously because that’s the only way he can write really candid posts. Read the first half of this post here and all of his posts here.
Now, these are kids that don’t want to go to school in the first place. Giving a lecture about school is boring to them. It is not the way to reach out to them. Instead of a Powerpoint presentation, I have some demonstrations. I have a table full of equipment. …read more