What Students Want: Teaching from a Student's Perspective

Teachers often make assumption about what motivates, excites or frustrates their students. But how do students themselves view teaching? What do they find exciting or frustrating in the classroom? How do they learn best, and what role do they think faculty can play in the process? To help answer these questions, the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and learning interviewed over 40 Harvard University undergraduates from different background. What Students Want presents their spontaneous, unscripted comments on many aspects of academic life, including their preferred styles of lecturing and discussion leading; amount and organization of workloads; relations among students, professors and teaching assistants; personal issues of identity, race, and gender; and their own definitions of good and bad teaching. For more, visit http://bokcenter.harvard.edu

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