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BETSY SIGMAN: The
first tip that I'd

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give them is to get syllabi from
other people who have taught

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the class, if you possibly can.

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After that, don't
be wedded to that

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because you have to
teach in your own way.

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So if you know
things about syllabi

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that you've seen
elsewhere or even

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syllabi that you had in
college or grad school.

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Go ahead and pull
things that you

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remember from former syllabi
that might have helped you.

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But the more syllabi you can
look at, I think the better.

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I think it's very important
to put class participation,

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for example.

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And I have a detailed series
of what class participation

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grades mean and what it
means to do well in class.

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And that's very helpful
because class participation

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is a judgment thing.

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And they want to know,
well, how did you

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come up with this grade?

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And I can refer them
back to the syllabus.

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And I can say, I compared you
with the rest of the students.

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And this is where you fell.

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And it solves a lot
of problems that I

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think teachers sometimes have
with the class participation

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grade.

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By my book, class participation
is extremely important.

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So I don't minimize it.

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I feel like if they're
there, and they're trying,

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and they give
evidence of trying,

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they deserve some credit.

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So I spell that out in
a very detailed fashion.

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I think it's important
to put on your syllabus

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what the deliverable, as we
call it the business school,

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is on that day.

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And I put things
like, preparation.

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And so under the preparation
column of the table,

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I put things that
are due in bold.

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And then I put
things that I expect

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them to come to class ready
to discuss or give an example

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or something like that.

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And I find that
that's interesting,

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in terms of getting the students
a little bit more interested

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in what's going on in class
and willing to participate,

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be willing to participate
in it a little bit more,

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as I go around the room.

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And for example, in
my e-commerce class,

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I asked them to bring in
an example of a website

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that they think probably people
haven't heard much about,

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but that's a good
example of a website

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that they like,
they find useful,

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they find that
they'd like to share

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with the rest of the class.

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And tell the class why
this is a good website.

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It also opens the class up for
the first real class period.

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