In 2012, Chris Brucia, who was working on a new fashion sale site, received a punishing performance review from his boss, a half-hour lecture on every goal he had not fulfilled and every skill he had not yet mastered.
If each student viewed a video at least once, we met the goal as lecture replacement.
Neither fish nor fowl, it clearly demonstrates that Tina Packer has the skill and insight to accomplish either goal -- lecture or theater -- but seems incapable of choosing one.
Prior to each lecture, the lecturer wrote a R / O / G comprising their view of the task ahead, what they considered important, their goals for the lecture, and how they thought they would accomplish them and emailed these to the rest of the group.
Part of me wanted to address this at the time but I had already gone over time with this part of the lecture and had achieved the goals I desired.
In particular, the model of teaching that [maths educator] presented in terms of a lecture being a set of goals influenced by a sequence of decisions was pertinent here.
Thus, the R / O / G was a good way to introduce the segment, enabling the lecturer to begin the discussion by orienting the group members to his/her beliefs about the content and the students, the goals for the lecture, and how well they thought it had gone.
But beyond the considerable debates concerning the conceptual validity and historical accuracy of Berlin's account (extensively documented in Harris 2002), there is considerable misunderstanding of Berlin's own attitudes to the concepts he discussed, and of the goals of his lecture.
Zingales has two main goals in his lecture, entitled, "Does Finance Benefit Society?" One is to underscore that there is much about the financial sector in developed economies that is wasteful, crooked and socially destructive.
I once heard him say, in a college lecture on cancer prevention, "The goal is to replace fear with understanding.
