Things I learned this week:
- My students are hilarious. But then, I knew that.
- Having a conference with a 6'7" student should always be done sitting down. My neck hurts.
- The student who drives me crazy is driving everyone else in the class crazy too.
- My son wants to be a "startle monster" when he grows up (yes, one who sneaks up and startles people)
- Oregon is a serious contender for the National Championship. And my folks will go no matter what.
- College Basketball has started!!!!
- You can't please all the people all the time. And that is so true in student evaluations.
- Sinus infections are evil.
Labels: teaching, year-round march madness, young whippersnappers
posted by Courtney at 7:33 AM
4 Comments:
Re #5: Go Ducks! I love seeing the power center of the Pac-10 shift north away from the University of Spoiled Chldren.
Re #6: On one hand, I'm excited. On the other hand, my beloved UK Wildcats, having run Tubby Smith out of town, have already lost badly to Gardner-Freakin'-Webb. At home. Let's just say I'm conflicted.
Re #7: Although as a whole, student evaulations can be a useful tool in improving your teaching, individual student's evals can have the same relationship to reality as a Bush Administration "press conference". Remember, the plural of anecdote is not data.
The student who drives me crazy is driving everyone else in the class crazy too.
Might be therapeutic to gang up on him (has to be a him, right?) in the guise of roleplay. For example, if you were teaching the Roman Empire, re-enact the murder of Julius Caesar with you-know-who in the title role.
Now, you don't get to kill him, but repeatedly poking him but blunt instruments in a class effort could be fun.
G: I have to admit, despite my Duke degree, that I kinda love Tubby. So I sort of see the whole Gardner thing as, um, righteous punishment.
N: I was thinking of killing him off during our Plague scenario.
Sinus infections are evil, and it's very weird that so many people I know who have not come in contact with each other have appeared to all have sinus infections at the same time.
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