The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Neo Emolga]

I'm gonna do an acceptance speech for my Caldecott Medal. I have to include at least one citation which I'm getting clarification on exactly what that means and there's specific guidelines I an required to follow for the speech. It is that bad.

Psh, that's dumb. With only 2-3 minutes, the whole speech could be on just that citation. And if there's guidelines as well, I bet everyone is going to go overtime. That usually happens even with minimal guidelines.

[Noblejanobii]

Psh, that's dumb. With only 2-3 minutes, the whole speech could be on just that citation. And if there's guidelines as well, I bet everyone is going to go overtime. That usually happens even with minimal guidelines.

Yeahhhhh she always docks me for speaking too fast. I'd like to go up to her and go "There's a trend here you're not getting." I wrote a very harsh review of her in the professor ratings this year. And she's giving extra credit for it too. > : D

[Chakramaster]

Yeahhhhh she always docks me for speaking too fast. I'd like to go up to her and go "There's a trend here you're not getting." I wrote a very harsh review of her in the professor ratings this year. And she's giving extra credit for it too. > : D

Hey feedback is always good. My brother in his nursing classes apparently is getting lucky. One of his hardest classes is getting made easier. Apparently they had to many complaints for the instructor. So much they had one of the superintendents come in and tell them the big essay they had due the next day was postponed and that the class was now a pass or fail. No more grades. So it's all determined by you alone. If you show the initiative or not. Things like that can determine if you pass or fail. Enough feedback and action will be taken. It can possibly save you. My review helped them find an incompetent instructor once too. I remember one from my first college was found having psychological issues. Ironically it was the Psychology instructor at that.

[Noblejanobii]

Hey feedback is always good. My brother in his nursing classes apparently is getting lucky. One of his hardest classes is getting made easier. Apparently they had to many complaints for the instructor. So much they had one of the superintendents come in and tell them the big essay they had due the next day was postponed and that the class was now a pass or fail. No more grades. So it's all determined by you alone. If you show the initiative or not. Things like that can determine if you pass or fail. Enough feedback and action will be taken. It can possibly save you. My review helped them find an incompetent instructor once too. I remember one from my first college was found having psychological issues. Ironically it was the Psychology instructor at that.

Yeah I'm just so fed up with this professor. She just doesn't know what she's doing!

[Neo Emolga]

Yeah I'm just so fed up with this professor. She just doesn't know what she's doing!

Oh, so many of them don't. I had one biology professor that just spent so many class lectures talking about his son in med school and then gave us exams about stuff he never covered in class. I crapped my pants on the first two exams and was running a D average, but thankfully on the third and final exam, I managed to figure out his lame methodology and tricks, studied my brain out, and actually pulled out a high A on it to save my butt and pull off a B average, which felt like a miracle. I'm actually surprised he didn't accuse me of cheating because of how different the exam scores were (and I was like the only person who did very well on that exam). Seven people in that class failed while half the class got a D or under. Scary stuff.

And I had a Business Policy class where EVERY EXAM WAS PURE MEMORIZATION. And the answers had to be put down word-for-word. Who cares if you were clueless about the actual concepts, as long as you remembered the words in the right order, nothing else mattered! Again, I got blasted on the first two exams, figured out the guy's dumb patterns, and saved my neck on exam #3 and #4 simply by remembering the answers out of repetition. It was so alarmingly stupid but I had to play by his game rules. The answers made absolutely no sense and many of the responses were the guy's own personal beliefs, even though I felt they were totally bogus. C average. DUMBEST PIECE OF INTERVIEWING ADVICE HE GAVE: "Accept the offer, never the job." WUT THE FUNK. THAT MAKES NO SENSE! Oh, and good luck getting anywhere in life doing that. -.-

If I became a professor, there is NO WAY ON THE PLANET I would teach like this. My whole way of doing things would be present the material in a fun, interesting, and thoughtful way that uses real people terms and examples. Be visual. Dash in some humor even if it's just to keep the class awake. Show a great and insightful video every now and then (TED talks would be perfect). Make assignments reasonable that focus more on the student's ability to take what they know and put it into practice because they understand it, not to just make them busy with a 15 page report just for the hell of it. And LISTEN to your students.

Boy, would I have fun if I were the dean of a university.