Economics 301
Pedagogy Seminar for
Economics
University of California,
Berkeley
Fall 2009 Professor Martha Olney
Office location: 691 Evans Hall Office hours for Econ 301 students:
email for an appointment
Assignments
#1 Due Monday August
24
After reading Chapters 1-2 of Curzan and Damour, prepare a first draft
of the syllabus for your section(s). If you don't have all the
information you need (section number, day, time, location), make it
obvious where that information will be added. For instance you
might put:
Office
Hours: >>I don't know yet<< Bring 3 hard copies of your
first draft with you to the first session of Econ 301, Monday
August 24.
#2 Due
Thursday August 27 by 5 p.m.
Submit the final draft of your syllabus to me via bspace: assignments tab, as an
attachment.
#3 Due Friday August
28
(a) Submit a one-page letter of introduction of yourself to me.
If you can, please include a photo. In your letter of
introduction, include your name and any other information about
yourself that you'd like to share with me. Print this out and bring it to
class.
(b) Post an introduction
of yourself to your Econ 301 peers to the bspace forum (discussion board)
no later than 10 a.m. on Friday August 28. Post your intro
inline, not as an attachment. Don’t bother posting the photo,
just the text.
#4 Due Friday
September 4
Prepare one powerpoint slide and present it in 301 on September
4.
(If you don’t have ppt, then you do the equivalent with another program
and create a pdf slide show.) The ppt slide you prepare should be
relevant to the class you’re teaching. Think of this as what we’d
see if we dropped into your class in the midst of the session.
The goal of the assignment is to determine good and not-so-good
practices in powerpoint presentation.
Bring your ppt or pdf to
class on a flash drive. No need to bring a laptop. Be prepared to present the
material contained in the ppt slide. Your oral presentation is
limited to 3 minutes.
#5 Due Friday
October 9
Read through the Office of Educational Development's Observation
Checklist http://teaching.berkeley.edu/observe.html.
Attend a class on campus,
in any department. (One possibility is to observe a former recipient of
the campus teaching award. You may access the list of winners under
“awards” at http://teaching.berkeley.edu.)
Writing assignment (2-3 pages
total):
briefly describe the class
note the instructor’s strengths and
weaknesses (a bulleted list may be most helpful)
discuss what
lessons you learned for your own teaching
Bring this
assignment to class on October 9, prepared for small-group
discussion. Turn in the assignment at the end of class on October
9.