Sometimes, grading these essays feels like force-feeding myself. I need time between bites (aka readings), but because there is limited time, I can't really stop, so I just have to open the next booklet and start reading the first sentence, and I just have to force myself through each essay like a robot. This doesn't mean I can't engage with or ( Read more... )

A student emails me two days after I've submitted final grades and tells me that I did not grade three of the student's assignments, hence the student failed the course. Ergo, it's "the teacher's fault ( Read more... )

I want to engage with this; later, after lab, I'll think about what I want to say. Or maybe I won't.

Also--and in a totally unrelated vein (but teacherly nevertheless)--it frustrates me when students email me with text that sounds like a demand. It may just be that the student sucks at explaining things, or sucks with communication in general, or ( Read more... )

lol at this student's email....

It's clear that none of the group members have even tried to do any initial research. Instead, they email me and word it like a "complaint" suggesting that their topic is too "vague" and they don't know what it means.

Well, dear students, from the beginning of the term, I have stressed the importance of researching ( Read more... )