Posted in Teaching on Apr 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
Well, I’m back. I tried to stay away: I really did.
I have lots of things on my plate, and there is even more where they came from, so I made a choice: no more The Pissed Off Professor.
Who needs cyber-idiots e-diots showing up and mucking with a perfectly good, perfectly logical rant?
Who wants to […]
Posted in Adminstration, Education, Teaching on Nov 6th, 2007 2 Comments »
I don’t normally waste my time mocking people, but sometimes, it has to be done. My motto in this area is pretty simple: I’m willing to let a person take the first couple of swings at me, and I give him fair warning that it’s time to knock it off and/or leave before making […]
Posted in College, Education, Students, Teaching on Nov 2nd, 2007 3 Comments »
Dear Dumb,
Visitors to this site are welcome to their opinions; however, comments (such as yours) demonstrating a complete lack of control of the English language will be removed to spare other readers from suffering unnecessary idiocy.
As a repeat offender, you have been banished: I laugh at you and your ignorance, and you can’t do a […]
Posted in College, Education, Students, Teaching on Oct 30th, 2007 No Comments »
We’re in the midst of week ten of a sixteen week semester, and last week was midterm time, so over the weekend, the last significant wave of drops took place.
For the better part of yesterday, I had the feeling I was teaching at the Twilight Zone’s main campus.
Several of the students in my classes this […]
Posted in Education, Politics, Students, Teaching on Oct 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Back in the beginning of October, Christina Mallon, a teacher at Williams Field High School in Gilbert, Arizona, was placed on paid administrative leave for performing a cheerleading routine during one of her classes.
The performance was captured by a student on his camera phone video recorder, and the student subsequently uploaded the video to YouTube. […]
Posted in College, Education, English, Essay, Students, Teaching on Sep 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’m not sure why other people teach, and there are days I don’t know why I do, but I’m willing to bet none of us does it as a means to undermine the success of students.
There is very little joy derived from students who don’t succeed, and even if the lack of success is completely […]
Posted in Books, College, Education, English, Essay, Students, Teaching on Sep 25th, 2007 No Comments »
I used to try to hold regular class meetings on the days formal writing assignments were due, but I’ve learned how foolish it is to expect the average (i.e. procrastinating) student to finish up a paper and read something for a class discussion.
I’ve come up with a few ways to solve this issue:
The quick meeting: […]
Posted in College, Education, English, Students, Teaching, Writing on Sep 21st, 2007 2 Comments »
Grading essays is such an odd task: it combines evaluation with instruction, but each message is often lost on its audience. Marking papers is a time consuming and exhausting process, and not getting paid to do it only becomes more frustrating when I consider the effort is probably going to be ignored by the […]
Posted in College, Education, English, Students, Teaching on Sep 18th, 2007 No Comments »
I collected my students’ first formal written assignment yesterday, and I’ll begin the grading process later this evening.
One the positive side, I had a show-up rate of about 90% which is very high on the day an assignment is due, and the first reads I did yesterday evening showed promise.
On the negative side, the death […]
Posted in Adminstration, College, Education, English, Students, Teaching on Sep 14th, 2007 6 Comments »
The title of this post sums up the outcome of my dealings with the student who said to me,
. . .you can be as evil as you wish because I have favor with God. I can make it with out the belief of others. See you in class Wednesday and also…. thanks for nothing!
As happy […]