One approach is to pre-empt it - I make a point of saying in my intro
that this stuff is genuinely hard, that I shouldn't imply otherwise by
saying "just" (or equivalent), and inviting people to keep score. We
can then compare everyone's scores at the first coffee break, and since
they're never the same, we can then have an interesting discussion about
real-world data :-)
Cheers,
Greg
On 2016-03-24 5:41 PM, Adam Obeng wrote:
Does any one have a tip for how to recover from accidentally doing these
things? I've tried to explain why I'm apologising for saying "just", but
that *just* seems to make it worse.
Cheers,
Adam
On Thu, Mar 24, 2016, at 05:30 PM, Steven Haddock wrote:
Yes, I think that is the one. The J-word!!
Thanks Lex.
On Mar 24, 2016, at 14:22 , Lex Nederbragt <[email protected]> wrote:
Perhaps this helps? Look for "Things You Shouldn't Do in a Workshop" on
http://swcarpentry.github.io/instructor-training/09-motivation.html
Lex
On 24 Mar 2016, at 22:02, Steven Haddock <[email protected]> wrote:
TL;dr Can someone point me to the post about teaching guidelines?
A little while ago Greg or somebody posted a set of examples of things to avoid
saying (“You can simply…”, etc).
A friend of mine (really!) is teaching a class and she realized she should
avoid saying “You have probably all done X”… so I was going to send her that
post, but I can’t find it.
Thanks,
Steve
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