A colleague sent this one to me recently, and it’s dead on. Most students (well, a lot anyway) are very pleasant to work with, but there are a few that make you want to jam your thumbs in your eyes. All teachers have had their share of such students. A typical exchange is illustrated brilliantly [...]
occupational hazards, student-teacher interactions
June 27th, 2011
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where have our savios gone?
October 10th, 2009
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At the age of 21, Mario Savio gave his “Against the Wheels” speech and emerged as “the nation’s most prominent student leader.” He and 800 others were arrested the day he gave this speech in Mario Savio, 19651964 in protest to UC Berkely’s ban on campus-based political activity and fund-raising. Savio was attempting to raise [...]
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the perfect human irks students
March 25th, 2009
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We kicked off a unit on microfiction in my creative writing class the other day. This segment of the course will be focused heavily on the idea of revision–sometimes arbitrary, always gut-wrenching. The process we’re following is one I’ve been developing with a colleague of mine based on the film The Five Obstructions. The very [...]
