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How Teaching Should Change, According to a Nobel-Prize-Winning Physicist

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EdSurge connected with Wieman to find out, and to hear about his more recent efforts to improve how teaching evaluations are done at colleges to make them more useful — and more equitable. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. One thing you’ve focused on more recently is teaching evaluation at colleges.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

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Their words stung like YouTube comments as I read them over and over again. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity.

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Course Evaluations as a Tool for Growth

Faculty Focus

Their words stung like YouTube comments as I read them over and over again. Like any good millennial, I started by googling “how to recover from poor teaching evaluations” and “is tenure still possible after low evaluations” but found nothing. Read your evaluations, and let them sit until you gain some objectivity.

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How a Pandemic Could Change Higher Education

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Watch the complete forum below: Or listen to the full discussion on our EdSurge Live podcast feed: You can also read the highlights from the partial transcript below, which has been lightly edited for clarity. All faculty can discount those evaluations from any review process. They will not be read, unless they want them to.

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16 Education Podcasts to Check Out In 2017

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Though the main focus is teaching (as the name makes clear), she also devotes some episodes to tips on improving personal productivity (there’s plenty of talk about a technique she likes called GTD, or Getting Things Done).

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

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Reading and responding to student reflections of their work increases their learning experience. For example, a reading course I teach is based out of a local school where teacher candidates can practice administering assessments and delivering interventions on real students.

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Four Powerful Practices to Promote Student Success 

Faculty Focus

Reading and responding to student reflections of their work increases their learning experience. For example, a reading course I teach is based out of a local school where teacher candidates can practice administering assessments and delivering interventions on real students.

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