Comments on: Teaching http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/ life, life in science, miscellaneous thoughts Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:59:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Seasaltblues http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-695 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:01:19 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-695 Apart from having to earn a "Pass" grade, students should be given extra credit when they show extra work. Thats it. I toughed up quickly when I had a student crying in my office because his parents would be taking his car away from him if he failed my course. This at the end of the semester, from someone who did not even deliver any of the assignements. My inner self was longing for the good old days when I could have kicked him out of my office, instead of handing him a kleenex and wasting any more of my time. Apart from having to earn a “Pass” grade, students should be given extra credit when they show extra work. Thats it. I toughed up quickly when I had a student crying in my office because his parents would be taking his car away from him if he failed my course. This at the end of the semester, from someone who did not even deliver any of the assignements. My inner self was longing for the good old days when I could have kicked him out of my office, instead of handing him a kleenex and wasting any more of my time.

]]> by: Lab Lemming http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-694 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:55:38 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-694 What egf said. What happened to the good old days when the class grade distribution was fudged so that the mean grade was a 75? What egf said. What happened to the good old days when the class grade distribution was fudged so that the mean grade was a 75?

]]> by: Katie http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-693 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 22:42:29 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-693 ecogeofemme beat me to it....always keep in your head that they are earning the grades. Repeat that to them, and often. I have also found this crazy idea of extra credit driving me crazy. Why in the heck should I give extra credit if they do not even do the assigned work. Dang those no child left behind policies that foster this attitude in our students. ecogeofemme beat me to it….always keep in your head that they are earning the grades. Repeat that to them, and often.

I have also found this crazy idea of extra credit driving me crazy. Why in the heck should I give extra credit if they do not even do the assigned work. Dang those no child left behind policies that foster this attitude in our students.

]]> by: drshellie http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-692 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:05:08 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-692 This is a graduate class, so anything below a B is pretty darn bad, and a C- basically means "failing." This is a graduate class, so anything below a B is pretty darn bad, and a C- basically means “failing.”

]]> by: ecogeofemme http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-691 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:07:59 +0000 http://drshellie.blogsome.com/2008/11/10/teaching-2/#comment-691 Remember that they earned those grades, you aren't "giving" them. Also, what's so bad about a C? I know the students will complain, but C is supposed to be average, right? If all of your students got As and Bs, you'd be saying that your course was too easy. It does suck, though, that you couldn't have the discussions that you envisioned. Remember that they earned those grades, you aren’t “giving” them.

Also, what’s so bad about a C? I know the students will complain, but C is supposed to be average, right? If all of your students got As and Bs, you’d be saying that your course was too easy. It does suck, though, that you couldn’t have the discussions that you envisioned.

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