Have you ever gotten an email that a student sent in the middle of the night before an assignment was due:
Dear Professor,
I really hate to do this, but earlier this evening I received some really distressing news from home and I haven’t been able to concentrate on finishing my paper for your class. I’m so stressed and anxious that I will go to the student counseling center as soon as it opens, but in the meantime, I won’t be able to get my paper to you in time for class. Will it be okay if I turn it in on Wednesday instead?
OR
Dear Professor,
I’ve been throwing up all night and am so dehydrated that I may have to go to the hospital.
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We Should Teach Time-management Skills
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Perhaps the most important skill that a college student needs to be successful is the ability to manage out of class time effectively.
The Benefits of Mid-Semester Evaluations
Most Colleges and Universities have their faculty members hand out some kind of course evaluation form at the end of the term in order to get student feedback about the class they just took and the professor’s teaching of that course. The feedback, often a combination of written comments and numerical scores, becomes part of the faculty member’s teaching record. Sometimes the scores are used in making salary and promotion decisions.
Ways to summarize a subtopic before midterms and improve learning
You have a midterm fast approaching in your course and you want your students to begin preparing for it. You want no surprises for them. If they know and understand the material, they should do well, you think.
Ideas for generating good class discussion
One of the best ways to energize the learning process for our students is to get them talking about the subject matter. But for some students, the idea of vocalizing about material only newly learned and the prospect of a class discussion are terrifying. No one wants to seem stupid in front of others.