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PUTTING TOGETHER ASSIGNMENTS
Presentation to new faculty
Amanda Bayer
Department of Economics
Monday, September 24, 2012
Use weekly assignments to reinforce and to extend previous week's work and to prepare for future week's work.
- Variation
Include a mix of activities...readings, quizzes, problems, big questions, little questions. Examples: |
- Repetition
Repeat concepts in various contexts. Why? |
- Interaction
Consider encouraging students to work together in groups, formal or informal. Why? |
- 'Action
Require students to engage actively with the material, and use questions to focus attention on particularly important ideas or passages in the readings. Why? |
- Creativity
Give the students some freedom to do some original thinking within even a very structured assignment. Why? |
not directly important in final grade, but indirectly
useful training to see a problem out of the blue, figure out how to approach
warn if not like questions on exams