SPECIAL NOTE: As is customary at this time each year, the Tomorrow’s Professor Mailing List will take a holiday break during December. The next posting will appear on Tuesday, January, 5, 2010. Happy Holidays to everyone.
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“By including the outline, you provide your adviser with a quick refresher on your project. It will also provide him or her with an efficient way to assess your progress. Remember that you are working on one dissertation while your dissertation adviser may be advising numerous students, along with working on his or her own writing projects, teaching courses, presenting at conferences, and serving on committees. Make it as easy as possible for your dissertation adviser to provide you with useful feedback and to think you are making great progress.”
986. Demystifying Dissertation Writing
November 24th, 2009985. A Different Way to Think About Teaching English Language Learners
November 24th, 2009Valdes: Linguistic proficiencies are very complicated. Some students who are monolingual in English may speak heavily accented English. This often results in their being characterized as English-language learners. Some students who speak both English and their home language may still exhibit some limitations in listening, speaking, reading and writing English. Other students are clearly English language learners who are in the process of acquiring the language.
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November 17th, 2009Once widely dismissed as an instrument of vanity, Twitter is now showing up in serious places. Its citizen-journalistic role after last June’s Iranian election was much celebrated; in May, a NASA astronaut became the first to tweet from space (”From orbit: Launch was awesome!!”). Bit by bit, Twitter is finding a role in education.
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November 17th, 2009All of what we have said regarding the promise of pluralism in the academy does not gainsay the following difficulty: whenever groups or individuals, in the name of one absolutism or other, overstep the line between a respectful listening and clarifying and a disrespectful pontificating and ridiculing, then there will be times when intolerance must replace tolerance in order to preserve the principle of tolerance.
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November 10th, 2009“This mentorship thing has cemented my interest in evolutionary psychology,” Conroy-Beam says. “My mentor’s not just a guy I work for, he’s a guy I work with, learn from, get to help.” Getting to see Lewis’s life as a graduate student has “led to me deciding I definitely want to go to graduate school,” the undergraduate says. “I know I want to study this subject, to do research in it and to eventually find a professorship somewhere.”
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November 10th, 2009Making experiences into objects of reflection means simultaneously heightening their impact while attempting to understand them in connection with any number of other thing: concepts, issues, or experiences arising from other course components; one’s past academic learning or personal history, one’s values, assumptions, and convictions; theoretical or other conceptual or analytic lenses, and the like. In the process, students observe, analyze, examine, and consider their political experiences from multiple points of view.
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November 4th, 2009“My department expects a great deal of committee service from its faculty. I’m untenured and want to make a good impression. And yet you, Ms. Mentor, have sometimes claimed that committees get mired in drooling and trivia. While I know that your wisdom is always perfect, I wonder how to reconcile your pearls with the bauble (tenure) dangled before me if I follow my department’s wishes.”
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November 4th, 2009“It seems important then, that teachers provide structures and models of effective work that encourage students to carefully balance their course work and other obligations. To use the common expression, teachers should help students to “work smart, not just work hard.”
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October 27th, 2009Having set out to right a conceptual wrong perpetrated by generations of commentators on higher education-the failure to integrate higher education with its social and economic context- Keller concludes with a plea for a radical transformation of the purposes and structures of American higher education.
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October 27th, 2009Brown has started to be more precise in his answers, citing specific scenarios and examples that highlight his abilities. That’s what employers want to hear, he says.
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