teaching portfolio
I have already taught a very wide variety of classes at the University
of Michigan and at Kalamazoo College. My complete teaching experience
is listed in my
curriculum vitae.
Here are some other useful links for demonstrating my teaching
ability:
- My complete teaching
portfolio, which includes two standalone parts:
It also contains a statement of teaching responsibilities and
interest, sample syllabi, examples of course materials, and more
extensive evaluations.
- Examples of my new and popular virtual
blackboard technique. During lecture, I write notes in an HTML
composer that is projected onto a screen. Note that these are not
even close to complete transcripts of lectures; they are roughly the
equivalent of notes one might scribble on a blackboard - they include
student ideas and comments (not always marked as theirs), offhand
remarks, and so on. But they can be written quickly, and legibly, and
posted on the web, and reviewed in later classes. Students like this
technique a lot.
- This term, fall 2005, I'm trying moodle - the fascinating, free, and
open-source course management system - and combining it with my
"virtual blackboard" technique.
- A concept map from my
introductory philosophy class, in pdf.
- I have spent a few terms helping David Velleman develop his
remarkable Blogic, an
online, interactive, innovative, and free introductory logic textbook.
- On a resource
site for Michigan philosophy graduate student teachers, many of
the exemplary handouts are mine.
- At the Michigan Center for
Research on Learning and Teaching, I helped develop and present
nationally-acclaimed programs on better university teaching.
