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Architectural Engineering

2006

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Lowman's Model Goes To The Movies, Allen C. Estes, Ronald W. Welch Jun 2006

Lowman's Model Goes To The Movies, Allen C. Estes, Ronald W. Welch

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Lowman’s Two Dimensional Model for teaching effectiveness has been included in the seminar on Teaching and Learning for the past seven years in the ExCEEd Teaching Workshops. The two dimensional model describes nine different classifications of teachers that range low to high performance in the areas of intellectual excitement and interpersonal rapport. Participant feedback has consistently indicated that the model would be easier to understand if it included examples of teachers in these various categories. This paper uses Lowman’s model to categorize teachers from television and the movies and provide familiar examples that will personalize and aid in the understanding …


The Assessment Of Teaching, Allen C. Estes, Ronald W. Welch, Stephen J. Ressler Jan 2006

The Assessment Of Teaching, Allen C. Estes, Ronald W. Welch, Stephen J. Ressler

Architectural Engineering

The role of the teacher in the classroom carries tremendous responsibility. A group of students that can range from a half-dozen to several hundred depend on their professor to provide structure to a body of knowledge, to guide the learning process, to convey difficult subjects in a clear manner, to lead the classroom and out-of-class activities so that student time is used efficiently, and to provide a course of instruction in which the students can successfully complete the learning objectives. And somehow, the teacher is expected to establish some rapport with these students along the way. How does the teacher …