“Luc Duval” is a student teacher in music and he’s learning what it’s like to be an atheist in the classroom: … a class discussion led from languages into questions about where I’m from, and a student decided to ask me, “Are you Christian or Catholic?” I managed to resist addressing the glaring semantic issues [...]
Lessons in Teaching
November 6, 2010 By 43 Comments
I had my annual observation earlier this week — for me, that involves an administrator visiting my classroom and taking extensive minute-by-minute notes on what I’m doing, what I’m not doing, how I can improve, etc. My boss happened to visit me early in the day — around the time the Pledge of Allegiance is [...]
Is This the Best Way to Teach the First Amendment?
November 4, 2010 By 24 Comments
You’re a college professor and you want to teach your students about the First Amendment. Is this going too far? Putting fundamentalists in front of class is nothing new for Tim Boudreau, a Central Michigan University professor known for challenging his media law students each semester with an unpopular guest speaker designed to illustrate the [...]
An Encouraging Editorial In Support of Science
November 1, 2010 By 20 Comments
I know it’s Asheville, North Carolina and not a city in the Deep South, but I’m still very encouraged to see an editorial like this in the Citizen-Times… and very troubled to know who’s running for the state House of Representatives in Buncombe County: When asked whether the General Assembly should be involved in the [...]
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