{"id":703,"date":"2006-09-02T15:22:21","date_gmt":"2006-09-02T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=703"},"modified":"2006-09-02T15:22:21","modified_gmt":"2006-09-02T19:22:21","slug":"top-10-no-sympathy-lines-and-10-top-must-answer-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 no-sympathy lines, and 10 top must-answer lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via a friend&#8217;s recommendation (thanks, Rob!), Wisconsin-Green Bay geologist Steve Dutch&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwgb.edu\/dutchs\/nosymp.htm\">Top 10 No-Sympathy Lines<\/a> that students shouldn&#8217;t try. To balance out the professor snark, let me add a few concerns of students that faculty should <em>always<\/em> be willing to address and should, ideally, be described in the syllabus or other documents available early in the term.  <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is important to you in this course and in your field?\n<li>When do you want us to complete readings and assignments (by individual assignment)?\n<li>Can you either tell me how you&#8217;re going to grade assignment X or point to some examples of well-done student work (or model professional work) for this or a similar assignment?\n<li>What citation system do you prefer?\n<li>What are we responsible for completing entirely by ourselves as individual students?\n<li>If we are working in groups, how will you address the free-loader problem?\n<li>How will you decide final grades for the semester?\n<li>What&#8217;s the best way to contact you when I have questions?\n<li>What&#8217;s the reason for you trying to teach us concept X with method Y?\n<li>I haven&#8217;t learned concept X with method Y: Can you suggest another approach?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via a friend&#8217;s recommendation (thanks, Rob!), Wisconsin-Green Bay geologist Steve Dutch&#8217;s Top 10 No-Sympathy Lines that students shouldn&#8217;t try. To balance out the professor snark, let me add a few concerns of students that faculty should always be willing to address and should, ideally, be described in the syllabus or other documents available early in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-bl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}