savageinfidel

I got the nicest email a few days ago from the president of the American Accounting Association:     “ I am happy to give you some great news: you have been selected as the recipient of the 2013 Innovation in Accounting Education award for your blog, Joe Hoyle: Teaching -- Getting the Most From Your Students . The award was established to foster innovation and improvement in accounting education through ‘significant programmatic changes or a significant activity, concept, or set of educational materials.’” I was really thrilled.   As a result, I will make a 90 minute presentation on August 7 at the AAA annual meeting in Anaheim.    If you are going to be at that conference, I hope you will stop by.     And, I want to thank everyone who reads this blog for helping to spread the word.    We have now had 78,000 page views over the years and my guess is that most of those hits came from you guys telling other folks about the blog...

I received the following email from Dennis Beresford about my previous blog posting.    In that earlier essay, I had indicated that I expected my students to study before each class as if a quiz were scheduled even though no quiz was going to be given.    I want them to motivate themselves to do the work rather than leaving the motivation up to me as the teacher.    It is their education.    They should care enough to have the discipline needed to do the work. I have long argued that students will always do much better in any class if they feel a sense of urgency.    The only question is whether that urgency needs to be externally driven or whether the students can be expected to create it for themselves.    As many of you will know, Professor Beresford served as the chairman of FASB (Financial Accounting Standards Board) from 1987 until 1997.    Since that time, he has been the Ernst & Young Executive Professor o...