I enjoy taxonomies like this, and hope to engage a class in examining archetypes, stereotypes and the like and exploring why they, exist, what they mean, their use and shortcomings. Matt Groening in School is Hell may have done it…
What incoming frosh should know: Teacher/admin perspective
other alleged profs and admin on the reddit thread supplied the following advice. It provided largely verbatim, but since I provide the link and this isn’t a formal paper, certain liberties are taken with format, tense, etc. Use “control F”…
FA2012 Scheduling Anomalies
The following are planned and/or tentative exceptions to the regular weekly schedule for My Classes due to holidays as well as professional and/or personal commitments. Some classes are canceled, while others are either moved online or a substitute teacher will…
When talk isn’t what one says but establishing dominance.
Funny thing, research says this happens regularly. Men are supposed to be worse than women, but both genders use class discussions to establish dominance apart from meaningful communication. But isn’t finding your place in a class relevant? I practice a…
10 things incoming frosh should know.
Reddit has a thread where he asked college students “What high school habits should incoming freshmen stop before coming to college” The following list is what the author summarized from his question’s response. For the love of god, do not…
spring final exam schedule
Student’s always have trouble figuring out when finals are. If instructors try to schedule anything other than the time prescribed by the college – they shouldn’t. There’s no reason to have more than 3 finals on 1 day – and…
Punctuality
This keeps happening. I’ve written about using The No *ssh*l* Rule as part of my syllabus (it’s a book written by Ivy league business prof, and published in Harvard University Press). I really enjoy this chart, taken from Graphjam (link…
ANGEL Orientation
Because Comp 1 is a gateway class (that is, success in Comp 1 correlates highly with success in college), and for many students it is a class they take their first semester in class – we cover some topics, skills…
On Success
Just finished conferences this week. I can’t stress enough how important it is for students to drop by their teacher’s office if they want help. In College A students go to their teachers office, though in high school maybe only…
Terrible Teacher (meme): perhaps misunderstood?
I have mixed feelings about the new “Terrible Teacher” meme. It’s really hard not to say some of these things. Sometimes turning a question back to a student is good andragogy (the word pedagogy should only be applied to…