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Comment on Here comes Fall by Syllabus Insanity « As The Semester Turns

Syllabus Insanity « As The Semester Turns — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:46:12 +0000

[...] at 2:45 am by profart As you may know, my syllabus is completely out of control. It is up to 11 frickin’ pages. The college I’m working for insists that certain sections be included, even if the [...]

Comment on Disappearing students by onlyme

onlyme — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:21:36 +0000

I stand in front of my students and remind them that they have assignments due and that they have to participate in discussion, and they STILL “forget” on a regular basis. I then make the extra effort to post giant colorful reminders on the class homepage– and they “forget” anyway.

How much extra work does this newsletter entail? We adjuncts need to be very jealous of our time, as you know. I find myself getting sucked into doing all sorts of extra things to make my classes “better,” but I’m beginning to resent the extra time when I get paid so little.

Comment on Disappearing students by kristi

kristi — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:50:34 +0000

Wow! I do online classes and I am logged in 5 days a week. Of course there are a lot of discussion question assignments.

Comment on The color! The color! by Stimey

Stimey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:27:20 +0000

Gothic, with the thin pale skin. Not to be confused with Goth, with the thick black lipstick.

Comment on Here comes Fall by kitkat

kitkat — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:06:00 +0000

I struggle to keep my syllabi at two page *sigh*. I remember getting a syllabus from one instructor that barely took up one side of one page. Tenure is beautiful thing.

Comment on Bad at Math: Massive Increase by kitkat

kitkat — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:58:15 +0000

Melyssa posted a link to your blog on FB, but the link didn’t work. I had to comment…

I had a student who attended fewer than half of the class meetings (which was allowed by my attendance policy, but she lost 10% on participation), only turned in the two major assignments, received a D and an F on those, and emailed me when grades were posted to find out why she failed. Really? If she had passed, I would think that would warrant an explanation.

While I could go on a tirade against letter grades altogether, it frightens me that students are so blissfully unaware that the amount of work that they put into the class is directly related to the grade they receive. Are they unaware, or are they just so disappointed in themselves it has become denial?

Comment on Bad at Math by Bad at Math: Massive Increase « As The Semester Turns

Bad at Math: Massive Increase « As The Semester Turns — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:00:34 +0000

[...] student stories at 3:00 am by profart You may recall that I have been having trouble students who cannot do math. I have recently had a serious uptick in the number of students who email me at the end of the [...]

Comment on Clues to the Clueless #20 by onlyme

onlyme — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:54:33 +0000

wow. just wow.

I think I need a little time (and some coffee?) to come down after reading that one.

Comment on Summer Semester: The World In Brief by Stimey

Stimey — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 13:48:12 +0000

Why Frodo Wears Brown Clothes in Lord of the Rings. That’s really funny.

I have to say, I really enjoy you on this blog.

Comment on Wake Up and Smell the Coffee by Club 166

Club 166 — Fri, 08 May 2009 02:18:40 +0000

LMAO!

All of our anonymous evals by students are gone over in our annual reviews with the chair of the department. Fortunately I’ve now been in place long enough that any particular review won’t hurt me much.

But I still roil a bit at some of the ones that have been slung my way in the past, such as the year I got “Together with Dr. X and Dr. Y, constitutes the Axis of Evil.”

Joe