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First week recap
Numbers The registrar’s website tonight shows 40 students in my undergraduate class, up from 33 the first day of class. We’ll see who shows up tomorrow morning. (I better!) Nine showed Thursday night in the graduate class, just about perfect. Talkative or quiet? I like students who are willing to talk productively (which most student […]
First day of classes
Thirty-three students came to my lower-division Social Foundations of Education class this morning. Since the cap is 45, and a few other sections are being cancelled, I expect a surge on Thursday. That’s no real problem, and I’m willing to have such "section refugees." The class was quiet. A plurality at the moment are in […]
Lemonade
I’ve reconstructed my work site and, after discussing a spate of plagiarism with colleagues, drafted a sometimes-ascerbic tutorial on plagiarism. I was wondering what to call it, perhaps the "irreverent plagiarism tutorial"—and then thought that some readers would think the "irreverent" referred to plagiarism. Then I thought about how my experiences with student plagiarism (e.g., […]
Changing things around
One of the courses I’m teaching in the fall, Schools and the Future, was put on the registrar’s schedule for the wrong day and wasn’t corrected until this past week. Eight students are currently enrolled, and so I need to contact them so they know they’re now scheduled for a course on Thursday evening, not […]
Done
I have just turned in final grades to the department office, where they’ll go (probably tomorrow) to the university registrar. Despite the registrar’s office having a scantron form for grades (according to a former student of mine), we still handwrite the grades, and the university hires clerks to type in each grade by hand. One […]