Jake Shechter

Jake Shechter
Jake Shechter is a fifth-year graduate student in physics who has teaching experience as both an undergraduate and graduate student and aspires to teach physics after defending his dissertation.

 

How to become an effective teacher
Jenny Ross and Jake Shechter

Do your future career plans involve policy, graduate school, K12, or almost any other scientific profession? If so, then explaining ideas to others (aka teaching) will be part of your job! In this session, we will explore some of the basic principles of what is known as “active learning.” In this style of teaching, students work to construct knowledge in the classroom with the teacher as a guide as opposed to a dispenser of information. We will share some of the evidence for this mode of teaching, and practice with some basic techniques. The goal is for you to have some basic principles and practice so that you are more comfortable in that first teaching role.

Saturday Jan 19, 9:00 – 9:45 and 9:50 – 10:35 am, ILC S220