Some Links for Class Session on November 19

The video posted for the class last Thursday got very few views.  So rather than make another one, with quality content, I'm going to content myself with annotating the links below.  On Thursday we're going to look at a model of deferred compensation as a way to provide incentive, an alternative to pay for performance.  For that model, I will make a video.

Assessing Classroom Quality - This piece is very recent. I'm on the listserv for the Tomorrow's Professor and the email came this morning. You might read through this piece to assess yourself as a learner.  It's good to see others talking about the broad strokes learning goals, so you don't think I'm coming out of left field.

The Executive Mind and Double-Loop Learning by Chris Argyris - If you are on the campus network you should have access to this piece.  We will discuss this piece some in class, as an extension of Bolman and Deal Chapter 8.  What's made more evident in this piece is that executives maintain implicit assumptions about how the world works and they themselves may not be aware of those assumptions.  But those assumptions come out in analyzing a situation.  Double-Loop Learning can then be though of as identifying those implicit assumptions and asking whether they are accurate or not.  If not, they really need to be changed.  That's not easy to do, but being aware of this is surely a first step in the process.

The Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schon -  This is a good read and worthwhile for you during the winter break.  I like the description of the book, where the emphasis is on intuition, not technique per se.  The question is, how does intuition develop and as a learner are you in tune with developing your own intuition.

MBTI Basics - While I've learned recently that Myers-Briggs personality typing is not completely up to snuff regarding current social science standards, I do think it useful in understanding that people truly are different (not better or worse, just different) in how they go about solving a practical problem. For example, some people like to make lists.  I'm somebody who does not like this.  Sometimes it is easier to get along with people who are the same type as you, but the group can benefit from having diverse types, to get different perspectives on a problem.  For the record I was tested back in 2003 and learned then that my type is INTP.  One of the issues with this typology is whether it is stable over time.  If I were tested now, would I turn out the same way?  The problem is compounded by the fact that knowing your type you can guess as to how your type would answer the questions, which might not be the same as how you'd answer the questions without applying this criterion.