Working with today's students

Complain as they might in the faculty lounge about the current students, instructors should adjust their teaching styles and learning techniques in tax classes to accommodate current student characteristics. This does not mean that tax professors should "dumb it down" or talk about taxes r...

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Published in:The Tax Adviser 2016-11, Vol.47 (11), p.822
Main Author: Raabe, William A
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
College students
CPA examinations
Curricula
Learning
Methods
Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US
Skill learning
Social networks
Student participation
Study and teaching
Tax law
Tax rates
Tax regulations
Taxation
Teaching
Teaching methods
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Summary:Complain as they might in the faculty lounge about the current students, instructors should adjust their teaching styles and learning techniques in tax classes to accommodate current student characteristics. This does not mean that tax professors should "dumb it down" or talk about taxes rather than develop the skills and attitudes that students need to succeed in today's tax profession. More than ever, students need a solid technical foundation in the tax law, not a highlights of taxation or tax lite course that may yield favorable evaluations of the instructor but not challenge the students. Rather, students need to be ready to perform well on the job, often in a matter of months, and they need to be able to grab points on the CPA Exam on the tax questions that will face them. This all makes the job of teaching tax more difficult than ever. The nature and characteristics of today's tax students require that professors augment their courses with additional learning techniques, engaging the students in ways that develop skills in addition to knowledge of the tax law. The tax profession's demands on students will direct these new approaches and others to follow them, to match the needs of the profession with students' skills and abilities.
ISSN:0039-9957