Mastering the art of teaching introductory courses | Daily Magazine | Scoop.it

The hardest course a freshman takes is likely to be a “survey class”—an introductory course that provides a broad overview of a particular subject. What makes it hard isn’t necessarily the subject matter, but that it tends to be a large class, with a lot of lecturing necessary to cover all the material.

Instructors often don’t like teaching these introductory courses either for similar reasons: Too much information to address, too many students to make individual connections—and instructors hate facing audiences with glazed eyes.

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Via Elizabeth E Charles