Design Instruction

GSI 300 COURSE

FALL 2005

SESSION / TOPIC / READING / GUEST
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1. Friday 9/2 /

Introduction

•History of Architecture
education
•Best and Worst
Experiences / •Sheridan, Judson D. 1991.
•McKeachie, Wilbert J. 1964.
•ACSA. 1997.
•Woodbridge, Sally. 1984.
•www.lib.berkeley.edu/ENVI/ ACH/Chrono.html
•Davis, Barbara Gross. 2001. Pp. 20-29 / Mike Martin
“GSIs in the Department”
2. Friday 9/9 /

Techniques:

Discussions and labs
•Games/debates, etc.
•Problems/issues
•Attendance
•Participation / •Davis, Barbara Gross. 2001. Pp. 63-74, Pp. 82-90, Pp. 91-95
•Broofield, Stephen D., and
Stephen Preskill. 1999
•A Partial List of Strategies for Variety in the Classroom
•Smith, Karl A. 1996..
3. Friday 9/16 /

Techniques:

Design instruction

•Critiquing work
•Desk crits
•Reviews
•Group pin-ups / •Attoe, Wayne and Robert Mugeraur. 1989.
•Schon, Donald A. 1987.—. 1987. Pp. 44-79, Pp. 80-99. Pp. 100-117
•Anthony, Kathryn. 1991. Pp. 3-7, Pp. 8-26, Pp. 29-42, Pp. 91-101, Pp. 105-119, Pp. 120-136
4. Friday 2/23 /

Techniques:

Lecturing

•Organizing material
•Finding visual sources
•Preparing/presenting / •http://teaching.berkeley.edu/
tenways.html
•Oral Presentation Techniques •http://teaching.berkeley.edu/
teaching.html#publications / John Landis
5. Friday 9/30 / Discussion of Reading
Student Presentations
6. Friday 10/7 / Student Presentations
7. Friday 10/14 / Student Presentations
8. Friday 10/21 / Student Presentations
Grading Yourself and Your Students
•Standards
•What should be graded?
•The meaning of grades / •Davis, Barbara Gross. 2001. Pp. 239-251, Pp. 252-261, Pp. 282-287
•McKeachie, Wilbert J. 1964.
•Examples of Grading Guidelines in UC Berkeley.
•Grading Criteria for the Design Studio.
•Encouraging Student Writing, A Guide for Instructors
•Svinicki, Marilla D. 2001. / Mid-semester evaluations
9. Friday 10/28 /

Discussion of Reading

Reports on visit to courses / GSI Panel
10. Friday 11/4 / Student Presentations
Designing/Preparing a Course
•Course goals
•Preparing the syllabus
•Pacing material
•Assignments (papers and
projects) / •Ramsden, Paul. 1992..
•Davis, Barbara Gross. Pp. 3-13, Pp. 14-19
11/11 / VETERAN’SDAY
11. Friday 11/18 /

Teaching Values/Ethics

•Classroom Innovation
•Inspiring Students
•Student Labor
•Faculty/Student relationships
•What should we teach?
•Diversity
•Privacy
Learning Theory / •http://teaching.berkeley.edu/
goodteachers/index.html
•Davis, Michael. 1999a..
•Murray, Harry, Eileen Gillese, Madeline Lennon, Paul Mercer, and Marilyn Robinson. 1996..
•Schreiber, Stephen D. 1989..
•Hooks, Bell. 1994.
•Adams, James L. 1979.
•McKim, Robert H. 1980
11/24 /

THANKSGIVING

12. Friday 12/2 / School vs. Practice

Teaching as a Career

•A teaching portfolio
•Benefits and pay
•Responsibilities

•Promotion/tenure

/ •Davis, Sam. 1991.
•NAAB.2001.
•Boyer, Ernest L., and Lee D. Mitgang. 1996. Pp. 3-28, Pp. 31-47, Pp. 49-62, Pp. 63-74, Pp. 75-96, Pp. 91-108
•Boyer, Ernest. 1990. Pp. 1-13, Pp. 15-25, Pp. 27-41
•Seldin, Peter. 1991. / Harrison Fraker
13. Friday 12/9 / SUMMARY