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    <title>Nature Network - teaching</title>
    <description>The latest taggings for teaching</description>
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      <title>Why is genetics so difficult for students to learn?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Martin Fenner - This Sunday morning at the "International Congress of Genetics":http://www.geneticsberlin2008.com/, "Tony Griffiths":http://www.botany.ubc.ca/people/griffith.htm gave an interesting presentation with the above title. He identified 12 possible reasons why students have problems learning genetics. His main argument: students should learn concepts and principles and]]>
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      <title>To teach or not to teach?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Anna Kushnir - One of the main reasons I went to grad school at my institution was that there was no compulsory *teaching*. One could TA (teacher assistant, or something to that effect) a class for compensation, but it was not required. I]]>
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      <title>Teaching course and article on OpenCourseWare</title>
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        <![CDATA[Eva Amsen - I took a fantastic course this semester: "Teaching in Higher Education (THE500)":http://www.wdw.utoronto.ca/index.php/programs/the500501/the500/ . It's a balloted non-credit course for final year PhD students, and it _used_ to show up on your transcripts, but the school of graduate studies decided that]]>
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      <title>China Crisis</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Derby - I have just returned from a trip to China. 18 months since my last visit and the changes keep on coming. Chongqing is like a scene straight from Bladerunner complete with 200m high neon festooned buildings. Discussions with eminent academicians]]>
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      <title>Interim chatter</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - I have not forgotten about the rest of my write-up of the thing I did at SciBarCamp, but other things came up. I just finished a course on Teaching in Higher Education, and this coming weekend is my last orchestra]]>
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      <title>Teaching Ops for Postdocs</title>
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        <![CDATA[Natalie Cox - One of the central skills for postdoctoral researchers who wish to continue in the academic arena has always been teaching. If you didn't have the opportunity to teach as a graduate student, how and when do you learn to develop]]>
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      <title>Science on a Budget</title>
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        <![CDATA[Matt Brown - This morning Heidi the dog took me for a walk along the windswept Cromer cliffs, after which we directed a massive decrease of entropy in my shed. Being male, sheds make me happy, and the sensation of sitting in a]]>
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      <title>Learning to teach</title>
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        <![CDATA[Eva Amsen - If everything goes well (fingers crossed, knock on wood, and other unscientific anti-jinx methods) this is my last semester in the lab. I plan to write over the summer, and defend my thesis in the fall. After that, I want]]>
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      <title>Dr. Jerome Blackman</title>
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        <![CDATA[Dr. Jerome Blackman - ]]>
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      <title>Michael Schreiber</title>
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        <![CDATA[Michael Schreiber - ]]>
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