Three Goals

This is one of those things I should have published long ago. After talking with George, I've come up with three goals for me during my teaching fellowship:

1) Make sure students are actively involved in at least some small part of every talk. A great example of this was when I had the stats classes all flip coins for our normal distributions discussion. I also recently had students in the algebra class list their ideal careers on the blackboard and vote on which career we'd discuss in detail that day (being sure to fit in math along the way). Weaker examples of class involvement would be just asking students questions and getting them to answer, but I prefer active involvement with some sort of motion or task to be completed.

2) Get feedback from George after each class to see where he thought I was losing attention, needed to speed up / slow down, or if I missed any opportunities to work in class material.

3) Follow along in each class' textbook between visits to look for ways to relate discussions to class concepts. My best example of this was when I had the students flip coins and build bell curves just before the class talked about normal distributions.