My Days in Yale (2)

  During this summer session, I’ve been to some classes of the excellent teachers in summer session and learned many useful teaching methods. The general characteristics of the classes are smaller size and more interactions between teachers and students. To mention a few, lovely Prof. Kristy Perry impresses me deeply by her happy laughter, which also infects all the students. She is an experienced teacher who makes her class well-organized, and she holds the idea that teacher should stand by but not be too close to the students who should learn to rely on each other. In reading class, it’s a clever way that she assigns the students to prepare for some comprehension questions and discussion questions. Beautiful Lauren asks students to think about something they like or dislike about America, which is a good way of warming up. Thus I think it is rather important for teachers to prepare for some interesting questions to make students involve in the discussions. Prof. Betsy is an excellent coordinator in class, and she is good at inspiring the students’ critical thinking, especially the skills of presentation. When all the students are totally involved in discussions of Shark Tank Talk and LGBTQ, I’m quite amazed.