You are being sarcastic, Right? Carrol
On 10/14/2011 9:28 PM, Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > It's the ratio advantage of the top ranked schools. Students have their > papers marked up and ideas scrutinized in small classes led by relaxed > faculty or sections led by outstanding graduate students with sunny > dispositions and optimistic outlooks. > You do your best if you are teaching three courses per semester, It's next > to impossible to meet the needs of struggling and advanced students when > your time is stretched. > Students who don't need help often don't seek it until it is too late while > the wealthier students are used to taking up the time of their teachers as > they have been taken from one private, after-school class to another since > early > childhood (my older daughter attends two piano classes, two choir classes, > two swimming classes and one math class per week; I suspect that she will > have no inhibitions going to office hours). > For the teachers it is actually a relief to have confident, ambitious, and > well-prepared students take up your office hours, but you are always worried > about the students who are not showing up for help. > What is also making teaching difficult nowadays is the reduced attention > span of students as a result of overuse of technology. It won't be long > before all but a few students won't be able to read cover-to-cover big books > such as > the Bhagavad Gita or Smith's Wealth of Nations or Marx's Capital or Mann's > Magic Mountain or Sen's Idea of Justice even if they were given inordinate > time. Many students can't get off Facebook during lecture or turn off > their cell phones in the library. > Lakshmi > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
