Friday, June 30, 2006

Professors

Some of the professors whose classes I enjoy/enjoyed.

Professor Jagmohan Raju is back to teach us this term. During his class marketing seems important and practical. He seems to explain almost everything in simple terms. He introduces topic questions that makes us think as to why did something happened. He reaches out to students well.

Professor Akbar Zaheer. I almost thought Strategy to be boring regurgitating of facts till I attended his class. Ok, only one class is over but in that class we stopped short of saying a "wow". It is a subject where explanation is better than a ppt. Prof Zaheer just does that. He talks about the issues even relating to his research and spends only 10-15min on a ppt to wrap up the discussion. What I also liked is he encourages every student to speak (for the CP of 25 marks - the highest for any subject so far). There is no faff talk from students in his class just for marks. The atmosphere is also informal. When someone addressed Aks (as he wants us to call him) as 'Sir', he responded with 'Distinguished Students!'

Prof Rakesh Vohra's Economics lectures from my first term were also interesting. In one class I remember he introduced a basic concept and posed a seemingly simple question. When one of the students answered - he confirmed from the second student "Do you agree with him?". The professor provided some supporting statements to the first student's answer. After the second student agreed, he went ahead and ensured everyone in class was comfortable with the answer - "Does the class agree?". Yes. "Good. Now let me tell why your friend is incorrect". Class gasps!

Finally Prof Krishna Kumar - two time awardee of Best Professor of the Year - taught us Economics this term (he has already completed his portion and I have just finished writing the exam!). His CP method is unique - he asks you a specific question. You get it right and your CP is finished. His class is so popular that when he gave a general talk on India, students turned up to fill the classroom till the door.


1 Comments:

At 10:42 PM, August 15, 2007, Blogger boshu said...

this is a nice post. I am able to relate to it from the teacher's perspective and a student's perspective.

 

Post a Comment

<< Home