Informal Small Group Learning and Interactivity:
Taking Risks and Breaking Down Walls - by Steve Ackerman
I was teaching very much in the pontification mode. I wasn't getting the type of interactivity that I wanted to get with the students...Something had to change.
"An Introduction to Weather and Climate" is a large overview course (200-350 students) offered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. The course is geared to non-science majors, to teach the students the basic weather principles and how to observe them. The goal is to demonstrate that science is applicable to their everyday lives.
When I started teaching five years ago, I had very little experience -- I was teaching very much in the pontification mode. But I began to realize that this was not really the way to go. I wasn't getting the type of interactivity that I wanted to get with the students. And it was my fault, not theirs. Something had to change.
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