An Engineer Teaches English

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 279-284
Author(s):  
Wilmer K. Schnure
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Technical Communication ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
College Of Engineering ◽  
The University

In the fall of 1972, the Department of Humanities of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan adopted a lecture-recitation format for its required course in scientific and technical communication. The recitations were conducted by graduate student teaching assistants of which I was one. Though I found my educational background, which was in electrical engineering, to be an advantage rather than a disadvantage in many ways, there were certain aspects of the department, the course, and the teaching techniques of my colleagues that I did not originally anticipate. This article presents some of these.

scholarly journals Who is we? Attending to similarity and difference as discourse praxis in the university classroom

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-27
Author(s):  
Collective on Praxis in Health Sciences Education
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Pedagogical Practice ◽  
Collaborative Partnership ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Dominant Ideologies ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Gender And Health ◽  
Similarity And Difference ◽  
The University

The word we evokes ideas of both belongingness and non-belongingness through its ability to create constellations of solidarity and exclusion. In education, its use has the power to draw invisible yet substantial lines between dominant and counter-hegemonic ideologies—and teachers and students—in ways that dynamically influence the operation of power between actors. Reflections emerging from a collaborative partnership between a student, teaching assistants, and professor during an undergraduate course on sex/gender and health revealed significant opportunities for critical pedagogical practice around we. This paper analyzes how we and related terms (like they, us, them, etc.) function in the higher education classroom and offers our analysis into the possibilities of using we as a starting point for anti-oppressive and reflexive educational praxis. Ultimately, we contend that we has the potential to work as an intervention countering dominant ideologies and normative assumptions operating in the classroom.

George Boole and Claude Shannon

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul J. Nahin
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Highly Educated ◽  
The North ◽  
Bachelor's Degrees ◽  
Biographical Sketches ◽  
George Boole ◽  
The University

This chapter presents brief biographical sketches of George Boole and Claude Shannon. George was born in Lincoln, a town in the north of England, on November 2, 1815. His father John, while simple tradesman (a cobbler), taught George geometry and trigonometry, subjects John had found of great aid in his optical studies. Boole was essentially self-taught, with a formal education that stopped at what today would be a junior in high school. Eventually he became a master mathematician (who succeeded in merging algebra with logic), one held in the highest esteem by talented, highly educated men who had graduated from Cambridge and Oxford. Claude was born on April 30, 1916, in Petoskey, Michigan. He enrolled at the University of Michigan, from which he graduated in 1936 with double bachelor's degrees in mathematics and electrical engineering. It was in a class there that he was introduced to Boole's algebra of logic.

scholarly journals An Overview of the Teaching Assistant Consultant Program for Developing Competency in Novice Engineering Graduate Teaching Assistants

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kush Bubbar ◽  
Alexandros Dimopoulos ◽  
Cynthia Korpan ◽  
Peter Wild
Keyword(s):  
Student Teaching ◽  
Teaching Assistants ◽  
Teaching Assistant ◽  
Specific Model ◽  
Dynamic Learning ◽  
Graduate Teaching ◽  
International Teaching ◽  
Specific Implementation ◽  
The University

As engineering education strives to progress towards a student-centric learning model, a competency gap with future educators becomes more apparent. In particular, the expectation of graduate student teaching assistants (GTAs) in attaining teaching competency to support this dynamic learning environment, often without sufficient training, is unrealistic.In the following paper, we present an implementation of the flexible Teaching Assistant Consultant (TAC) program, which serves to support the development of novice GTA competencies using a discipline-specific model with emphasis on assisting the unique challenges of international teaching assistants.We introduce the specific role of the TAC in terms of core principles and deliverables, and the strategic structure of the campus wide program at the University of Victoria. We conclude by detailing the specific implementation of the program in engineering by illustrating the role and deliverables of the engineering TAC.

XIII.—An Objective Study of Syllabic Quantity in English Verse

PMLA ◽  
1918 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 396-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Blank Verse ◽  
Ada L. F. Snell
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Student ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Vocal Expression ◽  
The Third ◽  
English Verse ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The University ◽  
Objective Study

It is my purpose in this paper to consider the quantity of, the syllables in twenty-five lines of Milton's Paradise Lost. The selection, given below, was read by three different men. The first is an instructor in vocal expression, the second is a graduate student in language and phonetics, and the third is a professor in the Department of General Linguistics. All three are connected with the University of Michigan.

scholarly journals Developing Graduate Students' Self-Efficacy with Learner-Centred Lecturing

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 15-33
Author(s):  
Meagan A. C. Troop ◽  
Lauren E. Wallar ◽  
Erin Aspenlieder
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Individual Interviews ◽  
Development Programming ◽  
Vital Component ◽  
The University

This paper presents the findings of a mixed-method case study conducted at the University of Guelph on the relationship between practice lecturing and graduate student self-efficacy. Building on the work of Boman (2013), and using surveys and individual interviews, we measured and characterized the perceived changes in graduate students’ self-efficacy in learner-centred lecturing. Our research question was: In what ways, if any, does microteaching contribute to participants’ perceived self-efficacy in learner-centred lecturing? Our results and discussion reveal that practice increases self-efficacy with respect to the design, facilitation, and assessment of learner-centred lectures, and is a vital component to graduate student teaching development programming.  

Raleigh Schorling—Teacher

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
James B. Edmonson
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Student Teaching ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
School Of Education ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Teachers College ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
The University

While the major contributions of Professor Raleigh Schorling in teaching, research, and writing were largely in the field of mathematics, he made an enviable reputation in other educational work, He had in influential part in the organization of the Lincoln School of Teachers College, Columbia University, and served as the first principal of the school. At the University of Michigan he organized the University High School and served as its first principal. He also planned and directed the first program in student teaching offered by the School of Education of the University of Michigan. In addition to his University duties he served on numerous state and national committees and was an exceedingly valuable member of such committees because of his unusual resourcefulness, marked initiative, and fine professional spirit.

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