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Sunday, March 1, 2009

Teaching Thoughts

The student who expects an immediate reply to his email is often the one explaining why his work will not be submitted on time.

Popup window: The operating system has blocked this file for your safety.
Teacher comment: Since I’m reading essays submitted by online students, through the school system, for a required course, it’s nice to think the system is saving me from yet another poorly written, boring student essay.

Just as there’s a difference between mental illness and insanity – one being a medical diagnosis and the other a legal defense – there’s a gulf between female and male, or student and teacher perspectives – though we do not label any one of them “sick.”

A teacher comments about a student essay.
“It was just like a Western. The boyfriend was in an argument, the argument turned into a fight, he got stabbed and died, bleeding all over his girlfriend. And while I read this, I kept writing on the essay, ‘Run on, run on, run on.’”

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