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
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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.”
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