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Student Evaluations 17 Jan 2007 | 03:30 pm
So today I got called in to Random Head Honcho's office at BCMU to discuss my student evaluation scores. Turns out I am supposed to engage in self-reflection about my teaching practices, taking the st...
Still Alive 30 Nov 2006 | 07:33 pm
ProfessorDog is still among the living. Nothing interesting has happened in the last month. As soon as something happens, I'll blog about it, promise!
Unacceptable 3 Nov 2006 | 03:57 pm
So I have this student. Apparently, she has always considered herself very good at writing essays. Being placed into remedial writing at BCMU did not lead her to re-evaluate this particular aspect of ...
My Favorite Spelling Errors 26 Oct 2006 | 03:23 pm
Of course, I see a lot of spelling errors in my job. Most of them do not involve what any reasonable person would consider hard words. Things like using the wrong "there" or putting "quiet" for "quite...
Bad ProfessorDog! 21 Oct 2006 | 01:28 pm
First off, let me say that I know it is wrong to cuss out a student in front of the class. Or in any other setting, really, but in front of the class is especially bad because it gives you 20 people w...
Excuses, Excuses 18 Oct 2006 | 01:14 pm
I've finally succeeded in getting through to my students the message that if they wish for an absence to be excused, they must have had an emergency. Great, huh? Only now they simply describe every re...
BCMU Students Surprise Me 6 Oct 2006 | 02:02 pm
On Tuesday, one of my remedial writing classes at BCMU classes sucked. They universally failed to do the 27 pages of reading that they'd had a week to do (one of our classes last week was cancelled, s...
In Defense of Unicorn Girl 21 Sep 2006 | 05:01 pm
After reading some of the responses to my original post on Unicorn Girl, I did a wee bit of undergrad-style research (that is, I typed my topic into google). I found that there is, in reality, a cave ...
So I have this student... 18 Sep 2006 | 12:56 pm
in remedial writing at BCCC. And she's apparently a total whackaloon. One of the (textbook) prompts for the first assignment is "Something that really interests me." Her paragraph is about whether fa...
Grade Complaints Ahoy 8 Sep 2006 | 02:47 pm
I haven't posted anything new here all week, but I do have a thing up on RateYourStudents--if you're not familliar, click the link on the right side of your screen. September 5. It's my third RYS item...
