Comments on: Teaching My First Lecture

By: Norma Saiph Savage

Norma Saiph Savage — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:29:33 +0000

haha good geeky jokes.
Man I want to integrate that kind of jokes in my class …:-/
Do you know any good ones for a c++ programming class?
I like all the positive energy you had about giving class, nice ñ_ñ

By: Adam Doupe

Adam Doupe — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:22:39 +0000

Dude, I had no idea you were teaching an actual lecture! I thought it was just a discussion section. Congrats man, an hour fifteen is a long time to fill. Hopefully your students haven’t paged out all the stuff you’ve taught them.

By: vi

vi — Thu, 07 May 2009 21:42:43 +0000

nice blog…i’m sure u will do great in the lecture..all da best!

By: Bryce Boe

Bryce Boe — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:14:54 +0000

Thanks Tom.

Cheri, I slightly doubt that I would have gotten this far on my own. Maybe it didn’t take much work, nonetheless I remember being pushed in the right direction by you on more than one occasion.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 06 May 2009 23:13:25 +0000

Excellent Bryce!

By: Cheri @ Blog This Mom!

Cheri @ Blog This Mom! — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:16:33 +0000

Thank you, Boe. The thing is, you would have gotten this far on your own, because you did. All we did was stand on the sidelines cheering you on. Well, that, and my superior ability to pick the winners for whom we stand by the sidelines to cheer. There is that.

Keep on rockin’ it.

By: Bryce Boe

Bryce Boe — Wed, 06 May 2009 16:55:03 +0000

@Cheri- I wouldn’t have gotten this far on my own. I cannot thank you and your family enough for your role in helping me get here.

@Grandma (Willo)- It must have been quite challenging and rewarding teaching high school students. I imagine there must have been a little drama as there is with all high schoolers. The one thing I’ve already noticed about myself teaching college students is I don’t care if they fall asleep. It’s all on the students to stay awake and pay attention, whereas it is my job to teach those that are eager to learn.

I modified the listing on my CV for the reward I received as it was misleading. It is an award only given within our department at the end of each quarter, and they give out four of them. One for the best reviewed lower division TA, two for the best reviewed upper division TAs, and one for the best reviewed graduate course TA. The reviews are conducted by the students at the end of the quarter.

By: Willo

Willo — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:20:11 +0000

How I enjoyed your post on your lecture today. We have a thing or two in common,as you know. In the olden days (1975-1995) when I taught Television Production to high school students I prepared 80 minute lectures once a week. At that time there were no high school level text books available and it was up to me to impart the technical information that the students needed to know in order to write scripts, set up lighting, understand sound, direct a studio crew, and produce television. My emphasis after the basics were news and documentary production.

Alas, with high school seniors, my greatest challenge of the second semester was changing pace often enough to keep them taking notes. Sometimes I had to resort as kindly as I could, by quietly asking Peter if he could stay awake just a few more minutes. Their final before graduation was to write a documentary production manual using my chapter titles, in the last 80 minute class. I so enjoyed teaching, even the grading of scripts and judging the productions.

I can’t imagine that you are the best TA on the campus! Your enthusiasm will most certainly be caught by your students and they will do you proud.

By: Cheri @ Blog This Mom!

Cheri @ Blog This Mom! — Wed, 06 May 2009 07:45:08 +0000

I am so impressed with you I could cry. In fact, I am a little teary, not just because it’s one AM and I should be sleeping either.

I would like to say, and I will say, because it’s true, that I knew all along that you’d turn out this good.

Your CV totally rocks, btw. I especially like the translation for CV and your Henry’s Market job description.