office hours
This really incredible thing is happening right now: I gave out paper assignments yesterday in class, am holding my weekly office hours right now, and NO ONE has come by yet to see me. Maybe they can’t...
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once, again. waiting around for students. R Why has a few thoughts about my thoughts from the last time I was sitting here: The only thing I’m not as sure about is the thought that it’s a system...
View Articlehere, take some snakes and calm down…
from a close friend’s teaching evaluations last quarter: Knows the material and is passionate about it. Extremely helpful at providing additional resources! Brought snakes during stressful times! Typo?
View Articleruminating about teaching
An aphorism honestly coined and cast has not been ‘deciphered’ simply because it has been read through rather its interpretation must now begin, and for this an art of interpretation is needed. …...
View Articleeven smart kids can be… well, you know…
From the U of C student paper comes this mindlessness: If you haven’t already, you too can learn Marx. Just pick up a Marx anthology—any one will do—and read indiscriminately for 60 pages. Then talk...
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I covered a class this week for a friend of mine, and it reminded me of how sharp many of the kids really are. Coffee afterwards with a former student who is one of the sharpest I’ve ever had also...
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to make me feel as if eggs.
SK found this in her classroom. we can’t figure out if it was actually left for her or not. but we kind of hope it was. (click for larger version).
View Articlethings that make grading papers a less horrid experience
whiskey active voice old minor threat records thesis statements hob-nobs making lists about grading rather than actually grading please add to this list in the comments…
View Articlefeelin’ proud
I’m finally at the point where I’ve got former students going on to do great things beyond the university where I met them. I take no credit for these student’s successes, but it still makes me proud...
View ArticleMartin Luther = Doomed Lighthouse
I just have to share this, because I think I love it. A student wrote that the essence of the Weberian leader (i.e. the heroic Luther before the Diet of Worms) is to be a “doomed lighthouse.” it makes...
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