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by john morrell<\/strong> <\/strong>on april 5, 2011, the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 hosted a \u201cconversation on teaching\u201d on the topic of \u201cteaching outside the classroom.\u201d this is the second installment of a two-part blog post covering the observations made by two panelists \u2013 steve baskauf from biology and david furbish from earth and environmental sciences \u2013 as they reflected on their experiences teaching courses that involve a field component.<\/em><\/p>\n professor of earth and environmental sciences david furbish<\/strong> discussed an upper-level course he teaches in geomorphology.\u00a0 professor furbish argued for the inherent interest that geology seems to provoke \u2013 this is a course about how the landscape that we see evolves, and therefore a naturally compelling topic.\u00a0 furbish\u2019s courses are smaller than baskauf\u2019s, with 12 students and one ta.\u00a0 as an upper-level course, the students all have some background in ees.<\/p>\n furbish focused on the task of balancing formality and informality and guiding students towards target topics.\u00a0 he reflected on the important steps of designing a meaningful field experience:<\/p>\n as an example of the icing on the cake, furbish pulled an acorn cap out of his pocket and cupped it in front of his mouth, producing a startlingly loud whistle.\u00a0 furbish has developed a tradition of teaching students how to whistle through an acorn cap, often making a connection to the vanderbilt\u2019s oak leaf and acorn logo when he teaches students this trick.\u00a0\u00a0 he also described making dirt-worms with his students.\u00a0 arguing for the importance of showing students that faculty still see the wonder in their work, furbish strives to cultivate an instructional personality in the field that he describes as \u201cgeeky-cool.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0asked how he creates teaching moments in the field, furbish responded, \u201cwith a big, booming voice.\u201d\u00a0 he stressed the performative aspects of teaching in the field \u2013 \u201cthere\u2019s just something about being really animated.\u201d<\/p>\n throughout the conversation, furbish stressed the importance of good communication so that students know what to expect. furbish emphasized that not providing adequate information to students on the front end can cause problems. the conceptual and logistical framework needs to be in place to make field-trips a positive experience for the students.<\/p>\n furbish left the audience with two final pieces of advice: pack a backpack with extra sets of warm clothes, and bring along a couple bags of snickers for your students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by john morrell graduate teaching fellow, cft on april 5, 2011, the 2022年世界杯中国小组赛积分 hosted a \u201cconversation on teaching\u201d on the topic of \u201cteaching outside the classroom.\u201d this is the second installment of a two-part blog post covering the observations made by two panelists \u2013 steve baskauf from biology and david furbish from earth…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":452,"featured_media":6387,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[116,70,69,76,44],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-wp0\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2018\/07\/09153749\/furbish.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/452"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/\/www.imrbdigital.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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teaching in the field gives instructors the opportunity to get to know their students in greater depth \u2013 in terms of how they see the world differently from how the instructor sees the world.\u00a0 this insight into student world-views can help the instructor to better communicate the concepts of the course.\u00a0 furbish also pointed to the group bonding and community building that happens with field experiences — seniors in ees can readily recount their favorite field trips.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n