{"id":7305,"date":"2016-06-14T11:24:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2016-06-14T11:24:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:24:23","slug":"simon-says-teach-the-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/education\/simon-says-teach-the-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Says: Teach the Teachers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/30700\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/\/thumbnails\/30700.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s one thing to know a lot about your field of expertise, but as Beth Simon says, teaching others about what you know is not easy. Very few professors are actually taught how to be teachers, a failing that Beth identified early in her career in computer science.  And as she tells Karen Flammer in this boisterous conversation, Simon disrupted the old &#8220;sage on the stage&#8221; formula and instead, offers interactive classes where students engage with each other to solve problems.  Doesn&#8217;t that sound a whole lot more fun than your &#8220;Intro to Computers&#8221; class?  <\/p>\n<p>Check out her methods in The STEAM Channel&#8217;s latest program, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/shows\/30700\">Beth Simon &#8211; The Constellation: Sally Ride Science Conversations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one thing to know a lot about your field of expertise, but as Beth Simon says, teaching others about what you know is not easy. Very few professors are actually taught how to be teachers, a failing that Beth identified early in her career in computer science. And as she tells Karen Flammer in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[72,75],"tags":[207,73,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}