A poor way to start the day
In the realm of "mundanely shitty ways to start the day", waking up to emails from students calling one, in essence, a mean poopy-head, are among my least favorite.
Said student IS INDEED working very hard, but it's a college comp class and he writes like a 7th grader, only with worse grammar. I can acknowledge his effort, but I have to grade him based on how well he's approaching cultural expectations of what college-level writing should look like.
He's also the second student this week to be mad at me for this set of reasons.
And this is the hardest thing about online teaching, because in a live classroom I can build relationships with students and they can see/feel my enthusiasm for the subject and my genuine desire to see them succeed, which balances out the stark reality of my assessment of what they are not doing well. I cannot figure out how to translate that into the online environment.
Tell me something cheery?
Said student IS INDEED working very hard, but it's a college comp class and he writes like a 7th grader, only with worse grammar. I can acknowledge his effort, but I have to grade him based on how well he's approaching cultural expectations of what college-level writing should look like.
He's also the second student this week to be mad at me for this set of reasons.
And this is the hardest thing about online teaching, because in a live classroom I can build relationships with students and they can see/feel my enthusiasm for the subject and my genuine desire to see them succeed, which balances out the stark reality of my assessment of what they are not doing well. I cannot figure out how to translate that into the online environment.
Tell me something cheery?