I am sitting in on a big lecture course – Biology for Majors – that I will teach next fall. Faculty, both junior and senior faculty, rotate and teach core courses here. I haven’t had to think about foundational biology in a decade and I’m taking notes on the material as well as the presentation emphasis of my senior colleague.
Thought bubble: Was there a memo about the rearranging and reassigning of organisms into different groups? Domains, Kingdom, Paraphyletic groups #howsway?!
Seriously, here I am in the course, sitting mid-range in this huge auditorium. I can see both my colleague’s expression and note the level of engagement (via facial expressions and the amount of scribbling students are doing)…He asks simple feedback questions and no response.