I just want to say "Thank you!" to everyone who replied to my post. There were some great additional examples mentioned in addition to voting for your favorites.
In case anyone was concerned, I am not trying to beat students over the head or vilify them with these statements. This list is covered in the Orientation to Psychology class that Psych majors take in their first semester. I treat this as a social cognition exercise. I ask students to read through the list of things professors hate to hear and ask them to try to identify the subtext the professor is hearing that is so annoying to them. I hope that this exercise will give the students a chance to reflect on how their statements may sound to others. I also mention that I do not want any of them to think that we don't want to talk to them. I bring these up only as a way to help them not say something that may work against their interests. I should also admit, to those of you who may have read my initial message as being somewhat cryptic with all that talk about my 3:00 class and such, that that message was sent to the list by accident. I intended only for the colleagues with whom I team teach the class to respond. However, it was the happiest mistake I have made in some time and certainly the most productive accidental message that I (or anyone?) has sent to the list for some time. Thanks for all your responses. I will be able to use them when we go over the student's responses to these items. Thanks, Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (479) 524-7295 http://www.jbu.edu/academics/hss/faculty/rfroman.asp "Pete, it's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." - Ulysses Everett McGill -----Original Message----- From: Kathy Morgan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 9:09 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Re: 40 things not to say to the prof Rick Froman wrote: >This is the online list (at: >http://www.educ.kent.edu/community/DOCWHIZ/poprof.html) of what >professors don't want to hear from their students that is cited in the >Orientation textbook. If you have a minute before our 3:00 class today >(if not, that is fine) could you e-mail me with the numbers of the ones >you really dislike. I want to mention this in class today. Thanks, > >Rick > >Dr. Rick Froman, Chair > > Here is one I really hate: "I worked so hard on this assignment! I don't understand why I got such a low grade!" (I want to tell them that only their mom cares about how hard they worked on something, that time in does not mean quality out, that the client in a "real world" job won't care about how hard they worked on something......but I feel completely stymied by this one!) --Kathy Morgan Wheaton College Norton, MA 02766 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang= english --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
