Touro College Courses

Guidelines for Professor Bergman's courses:

Case Presentations – Case problems will be assigned to individuals or teams.

Oral component: If a team is making a presentation, each member of the team is expected to speak. The team should be prepared to defend its solution in response to questions asked by the instructor and classmates.

A+ Don't refer to notes

A    Minimal reference to notes

A- Look up while referring heavily to notes

B+ Read from notes smoothly

B    Read from notes with hesitations

B- Read from notes with multiple errors

Each oral presentation should be accompanied by an individual answer to the question(s) asked.

Class Participation Rubric

%

Element

25

Evidence of reading homework assignments

25

Participation in class discussions

25

Perceptive questions to teams making case presentations

25

Prompt arrival *, prompt return from break(s),

staying to the end of class

* Arrival on time 100% credit for class participation

30 minutes late      75% credit for class participation

60 minutes late      50% credit for class participation

Class participation is not limited to speaking up in class and coming prepared. There are also character/ behavior issues:

* Managing Ambiguity. "Managing ambiguity is that tension between rushing to the clear, the concrete, and managing this ambiguous fuzzy area in the middle. There is no single linear solution."

* Agency and Responsibility. "We have to be able to take responsibility and know what that means. Being an effective agent means being able to approach one’s environment, social or physical, with a confidence that one actually will be able to deal with it."

* Finding and Sustaining Community. "Managing community is partly about that multitasking of connecting and interacting. It’s also, of course, about maintaining community, about maintaining links with people, making sure you do remember your best friend’s birthday, that you don’t forget that your grandmother is by herself this weekend, and of course recognizing also that one is part of a larger community, not just one’s own private little world."

* Managing Emotion. "Really it’s about getting away from the idea that emotion and reason are separate… Teaching young people to manage reason and emotion."

* Managing Technological Change. "When we have a new tool, we first use it for what we are already doing, just doing it a bit better. But gradually, the new tool changes the way we do things. It changes our social practices."