Friday, October 5, 2007

Asking questions

Thanks for a good meeting yesterday everyone! Even though most of us may not follow in the footsteps of the Masters in being mean, crotchety professors, I think many of us enjoyed reading the book.

For our next meeting, we discussed focusing in on discussion-leading, the Socratic method, and less emphasis on lectures, which has dominated a lot of our recent readings. I was able to find an interesting book (complete text available online, hooray!) that may be good for our interests. It is William W. Wilen's Questions, Questioning Techniques, and Effective Teaching, and we can access it here. I believe the library also has a hard copy if you don't prefer to read online.

There was also a preference to return to meeting over breakfast to invigorate the start of our day! Let's plan to meet on Thursday, November 8, at 8am, back in our usual space, Asian American Activities Center, top floor couch room (not the conference room we met in for the October meeting but just upstairs from that).

See everyone in November!