Re: Pedagogy

["Fernanda Foertter [Advanced Physics Forums]" <admin@ADVANCEDPHYSICS.ORG>]

But you are going to the extreme...I'm not asking a professor to do all the
problems, but how can anyone teach classical mechanics or thermodynamics
without showing ANY!

Why are some here assuming i'm trying to cut corners?  Certainly you must
agree that Physics is a science of solving problems and all of my exams
involved solving problems.  Shouldn't it be then that it's the
responsibility of the professor to show you how to solve a few?


----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael N. Monce" <mnmon@CONNCOLL.EDU>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:04 PM
Subject: Re: Pedagogy


> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004, Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
>
> > I suggest that you transfer to another university
> > as soon as possible.  The situation that you describe is
> > unlikely to be repeated elsewhere.
>     While I found some of the complaints of the student interesting, I
> also found many that resonate with complaints I'm hearing more and more
> from our own majors: They include
>
>     Why should have I to remember what was done in the Intro course for
> the upper level courses?
>
>    Why don't you spend all the class time showing us how to do all the
> problems?
>
>
>    Why aren't the exam problems just like the homework problems?
>
> etc.
>
>    Demanding that a student do some learning on their own, to me is
> essential. While the student is obviously unhappy, I wonder how much
> transferring to another school would really solve the problem.
>
>
>                              Mike Monce
>                              Connecticut College (where we have 5 faculty
> not 25 )