title: Teaching future professors how to teach.
abstract: This paper describes a course designed to provide hands-on teaching experience to future professors and to incorporate techniques for more effective teaching. A team of Ph.D. candidates, under the direction of a senior faculty member, prepared a new course from beginning to end and then offered it to a class of graduate students. The course was developed using the unit map concept so that the presentations by the five student-instructors complemented and built upon one another. Immediately after each class, feedback was given to the student-instructors by the faculty advisor and the other student-instructors. Review of video tapes of the lecture reinforced this feedback. At the completion of the course, both students and student-instructors were surveyed as to the effectiveness of the course and the student-instructors. This teaching experience and the feedback obtained from the surveys will be invaluable to the student-instructors in their future development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA.
authors.forename: P L
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Bishop
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kupferle
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moll
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alonso
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Koechling
mesh_terms: D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D004500:Education, Graduate; D004777:Environment; D004787:Environmental Pollution / Q000517:prevention & control; D006801:Humans; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D016730:Program Development