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Painful clues
I had a discussion with a former student earlier this week with a painful lesson about miscommunication between students and faculty. But it’s an important lesson, and I think I know how to remedy this specific problem. In the relevant class, where I was teaching a cohort of students in a single program, I received […]
Time to edit former students’ papers
I have, from the spring, the papers of two students who agreed to let me share their work with others (with their names removed). I haven’t edited them, and it’s time.
Pleasurable work
Over the weekend, I’ve been reading parts of three memoirs I assigned my masters history of education class. I am delighted no one picked the fourth option, but all of the memoirs are wonderful, and I need to finish my own assignment before class tonight to discuss the memoirs as primary documents (historical sources) in […]
Satisfaction
I’m on campus today, working on the historical foundations class prep for tomorrow (as well as finishing grading student work). I’m having fun putting together in-class exercises that I intend to be fairly low stakes but highly intensive in terms of requiring students to think. I’m working with primary materials that are deliberately a week […]
On-line quiz development
I’ve just finished the third on-line quiz for EDF 6517 (the historical foundations course). I think I finally have the drafting of quizzes on-line down. Last week I discovered that I can’t give detailed, individual feedback to students. Rats! So I add feedback to the essay/short answer items, and I’ve promised to give individualized feedback […]