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JM

Note: if at any point you want me to stop jumping in and commenting on your teacherly posts, TELL ME. Because you see, I'm so very excited for you and I want to know how the story unfolds, so I feel the need to comment on every.little.thing. Anyway.

1) I do believe I said you'd overestimate on how much to stuff into a class. Everyone does for the first few classes. Never fails. You should have seen how much I _didn't_ cross off my notes for the first day, my first time!

2) Get yourself an egg timer for paper grading and hold yourself to 15-20 mins per essay. Really. It'll save your sanity. (I could go into a really boring discussion about the amount of time spent & comments written vs the amount of comments students actually read, but I'll spare you. Just get a timer.)

3) 6 or 7 people out of 30+ talking? that's _awesome_. Don't let the blurters dominate the conversation, but appreciate them for being there.

4) People who tell you that you'll hate your students tend to be not-good-teachers. Just saying. (I agree: such people can fuck right off)

5) If you're not _forced_ to give a diagnostic essay, probably good not to do it as long as you do something diagnostic so that they're/you're not totally off the mark when it comes to the first graded thing. Also spend a little extra time at the end practicing how to tackle these exam prompts because they'll have to do it for their final. I got a lot more out of their responses to "Printcrime," from a diag standpoint, than I did their in-class essays.

6) all your other stuff sounds great great great but be ready to have to report to administration how it all fits into the stated goals of the course. those people are sticklers for assessment, and it sucks, but just have an answer in your back pocket.

go you!

badgerbag

comment away! Of course, you know i live to entertain you, JM!

I think assessment will be okay - I will def. be reading the goals out loud to the class a bunch more... and keeping them in mind!

Robin

I'm really impressed.

Teachers often seem to be judging students and their abilities more than and sometimes to the exclusion of helping them.

Students are usually put in the position of competing against each other without much experience of helping each other.

Hurray for you.

badgerbag

I'll hurray myself with more surety when I get them all to pass the class!

So far from just 2 short writing samples it's stunningly clear who will fail the class even if they try and do all the work -- So I am going to recommend to all of those people that they sign up for the extra lab class. I am not confident in their case that it will turn the tide... I'd say about 5 of them out of 33 are not going to be able to catch up or keep up.

Debbie

Such good stuff! I agree with JM that people who hate their students tend to be bad teachers, just as people who constantly complain about their kids are usually not good parents.

I'd be in your class in a heartbeat!

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