May 7, 2004

Game, Set, Teach

By ALCINDA C. LEWIS

A few years ago, I returned to teaching after a 15-year break for research and writing. I wanted once again to share my love of biology with students, and this time around I wanted to be an outstanding teacher.

But I found most of my students wary and restless, seemingly convinced the course would be extraordinarily hard and highly competitive. Added to that, I was uncomfortable in the role of lecturer and authority figure, and I suspected that they would remember very little of what I

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