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Professor honored again as top educator Kelter says respect is key to effective classroom relations By Kasey Kerber Staff Reporter For chemistry Professor Paul Kelter, the second time’s the charm. • For the second year in a row, Kelter accepted ASUN’s Outstanding Educator Award, which was presented Wednesday night. "Hie award, founded in 1996 to honor pro fessors for their hard work, is given to the edu cator who receives the most student votes dur ing the ASUN elections. “I’m honored this year as I was last year,” Kelter said, preceding the Association of Stu dents of the University of Nebraska inaugura tion ceremony. Kelter discussed what he felt were the keys to good teaching, and respect was at the top of his list. “If you just go in and give a lecture, you’re not doing your job,” Kelter said. “A class isn’t something to be talked down to. It’s worth the time in class to ask what students think.” That type of student interaction is Kelter’s fundamental teaching technique, he said. “If I’m asking 60 to 70 questions in a class period, that’s normal,” Kelter said. And the best questions, Kelter said, are sometimes those that students don’t answer. “If you provoke a question that brings si lence because students are thinking about it, it’s a good thing,” Kelter said. Another vital technique in teaching, Kelter said, was to “sell yourself.” “If you look at the great lecturers on cam pus ... they have in common that they not only sell their material, but they also sell them selves.” This selling of “yourself,” Kelter said, is a “selling of your humanity.” “Students know when a teacher cares. It’s a team effort. We’re both in the same fight.” Kelter said learning chemistry was chal lenging for some students. “Those that stay with the program end up doing well,” Kelter said. “I try to make it clear that if you stick with it, things will get better.” When asked if a three-peat could be in his future, Kelter said he faced a dilemma because, as a research professor, he can teach only one class. He has two options. Kelter said he could teach a beginning chemistry class with 200 stu dents. Otherwise, he said he could teach a graduate course in chemistry with about eight Lane HickenbottoWDN CHEMSTRY PROFESSOR PAULKEUER prepares same ccttaa takes fiaai a taper to Ic—astrals te bis Chearistry 105 class hear pclyanres wtrk Tbaisiay afterasca. students, who may later go on to teach classes he didn’t receive the award next year, of 200 students. “There are a lot of deserving teachers out Kelter said he would not be disappointed if there and it’s time we recognize them too.” _i-1 National buying power means you save more! EVERY BIKE AND ACCESSORY IS ON SALE FORTHIS WEEKEND ONLY! Camel BakM.U.LE.™ SALE *61.99 PowerBars SALE 990 . Blackburn Mtn. 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