What is the college’s priority, learning or making things easy and convenient? When it comes to parking, I have no problem eliminating faculty parking spaces, but when it comes to the goal of the college, learning should come first. It…
Types of Students
College Misery breaks down taxonomies of students with frightening regularity. I want to think that if we discussed theses we could better communicate with with first generation students who don’t know what to expect and / or have unrealistic expectations.…
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…
Review: Not One Less
Just watched a movie from 1999 or so, made in and about China, called Not One Less (see also wikipedia). It won several awards, including Best Picture for 1999 Venice International Film Festival, and the Audience Award for the 1999…
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…
Types of students
Need to talk about taxonomy of student archetypes. Colleague identified the Tourist. At another famous off campus blog an anonymous community college teacher went a litter farther. http://collegemisery.blogspot.com/2011/07/developmental-grab-bag.html Maybe for an activity students could do taxonomy of college teachers?