Monday, September 25, 2006

Honors Seminar - Post 1

I am really enjoying teaching the UCF Engineering Honors Seminar. I've diverged some from the original class - which had a more rigid structure of teaching and lecturing on research methods. Each day the class actively engages in discussion - and I was surpirsed to learn how few classes at UCF had previously placed the students into an active discussion format where they were allowed to control the flow and direction of the discussion. The students are doing a great job of running the class - and I am bringing in the guests that allow them to start taking different perspectives of their degree and education - while at the same time learning the basic material.

During the course of the semester I hope to be able to see some of the truer personalities of the students in course. For them - the light at the end of the tunnel (graduation) is getting pretty close. The decisions that go with that, (small business, corporate America, grad school, ...) are also getting pretty close. For many these decision are shaped only by the opportunities that present themsleves "the loudest". When these students finish - they should have the skills necessary to pick out, what for them is the best opportunity.

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