{"id":14293,"date":"2014-01-20T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T16:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/edc\/?p=14293"},"modified":"2021-08-13T10:20:14","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T14:20:14","slug":"the-art-of-teaching-successfully-spotlight-on-carter-elwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/tls\/2014\/the-art-of-teaching-successfully-spotlight-on-carter-elwood\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of teaching successfully: Spotlight on Carter Elwood"},"content":{"rendered":"

By: Cassandra Hendry<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s not every day that a professor who is technically retired receives an award for a class he\u2019s been teaching since 1968. Of course, Carter Elwood is not just any professor.<\/p>\n

Elwood, a veteran teacher of Russian history at Carleton, won the 2013 Capital Educators\u2019 Award<\/a> in May on the recommendation letter of a student in his class.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has an uncanny and, in my opinion, unmatched story-telling ability that makes history come alive. And we, as his students, are part of that process,\u201d wrote the student who nominated him.<\/p>\n

Elwood is a lecturer by training, and says he likes to keep it simple in the classroom. His lectures aren\u2019t new each year, but he says he takes time to refresh them and put a new spin on each topic he crafts.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo a certain extent, it\u2019s a reflection of my own training and how I was taught. It\u2019s from the good teachers I had and what they did,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good undergraduate teachers I had were well organized, tried to give students their monies worth, and tried to get them interested in history. I try to perpetuate those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

Having been teaching at Carleton since 1968, Elwood has had to adapt to the changing technological world that permeates the classroom, sometimes with humorous results.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo sooner had I started using overhead that all my colleagues started using PowerPoint!\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n

Now, Elwood uses a PowerPoint presentation to show illustrations and maps he can refer to during his lecture for supplementation. He also features two or three Soviet-era films in each course to give students a real look into the material they\u2019re studying.<\/p>\n

One of his unique traits is the lack of teaching assistants in his courses. He prefers lectures with the professor to discussion groups, which he says his students wholeheartedly agree with.<\/p>\n

Now that he\u2019s retired, he enjoys doing marking himself, hoping that students can learn something from being graded by someone with years of experience.<\/p>\n

For a professor who has had so much experience moulding young minds, he says the secret to teaching is much simpler than expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to interest them in history, in Russian history especially, and get them involved in it. And I think if I have their attention at the end of an hour and a half, it\u2019s been reasonably successful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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