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By Emily Cook, TLS staff writer<\/em><\/p>\n

Walking into one of Professor Simon Power\u2019s classrooms, you won\u2019t find tablets or a touch screen, but you may just find a minimum of three blackboards.<\/p>\n

Professors don\u2019t need anything more than words and some chalk to engage students, he says, as long as they\u2019re good teachers themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn order to get students engaged, the professors have to be engaged. That perhaps is more important,\u201d says Power.<\/p>\n

Power, who has been teaching in Carleton\u2019s Department of Economics for 27 years, has applied that attitude to all of his teaching methods. Earlier this year it earned him a 2015 Provost\u2019s Fellowship in Teaching Award<\/a> for sustained excellence in teaching.<\/p>\n

Power says a huge part of teaching is having empathy with students. During lectures he watches students\u2019 reactions and adjusts his teaching based on how well he perceives them to be following. He says he checks to see if they understand, what points are lost on them, and how he can explain things in a new way so they keep up.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like to think of myself as \u2018actively lecturing\u2019,\u201d Power says.<\/p>\n

Creating personal connections with students and collecting feedback is a crucial element of Power\u2019s teaching. He says he\u2019s developed little tricks to learn how students are doing, like asking them if they\u2019re happy, rather than if they understand. He says that\u2019s because few students would admit to a teacher they don\u2019t understand something.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe more feedback I get, the more I\u2019m able to adapt or respond, to make my teaching more effective,\u201d says Power.<\/p>\n

In his classes, Power says he encourages students to motivate themselves by teaching them why they should care about material they\u2019re learning. Overall, he says a successful lecture happens when a professor reads the classroom and cares about the students\u2019 development and learning.<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally think that constant interaction with the feedback is the optimal way to do it,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

Because of this teaching method, Power says he never teaches one class the same way, and is constantly learning from new students who bring new perspectives to the material.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re interested in teaching, and you care about the students, and care about them learning the material, then you tend almost automatically to try and improve what you\u2019re doing all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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