I don't teach in the classroom though - I'm tasked with getting them ready for employment. We have to frequently discuss such things as your answering machine message and the music you have selected instead of a ring tone... that fact your email address is sparklepants69 - that won't cut it. My favorite is you can't write an email to people with text message slang.
I'm old I know. I still wear hose with my heels and skirt to work.
After reading this post I can't help but wonder if I'm living in a different dimension. Surely I'm not stuffy, and that explains it all.
If I was a student, I'd expect the teacher to address me by my first name or by a title of respect preceding my surname (Mr./Ms.) If I was a teacher, I'd address the matter of my name during the opening remarks of my first class and repeat it at the second class if there are new students. "This is English Composition 101. I'm e_d_young, associate professor in the English Department. You can call me Professor Young." If I wanted to attempt humor, I'd add on "Or you can call me Marchioness d' Youngsborough."
Also, I haven't seen Americans address each other by surname only. When did that start? Or are you not in the U.S.?
I didn't pay a whole lot of attention to this until it began to occur regularly, and then I noticed students often called each other or referred to each other by last name only
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I think it is weird that they call you by your last name only and that is not something that happens here in the colleges or universities. I may be old school but I think it is disrespectful for them to call you just "Vecchio", even if that is an acceptable form of address among their peers. You are not a peer. I would consider it rude for the people I supervise to call me by my last name even though I have a relaxed approach to my management style. To me form of address is a common courtesy. A few very close friends address me that way but that is about it.
Not that long ago I would have dropped a Sicilian hammer on any student who did that, but I don't have the inclination or energy for it anymore. Should I, if only to give them a taste of unacceptable workplace behavior? I guess so. And I understand your idea that I'm not a peer. But the last-name thing doesn't seem to be a gateway drug for further disrespect, so I let it slide. However, if a student is shamelessly texting in class (to name just one behavior), the hammer does come down. Except for the last-name thing, Papa don't take no mess, as Mr. James Brown said.
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I'm old I know. I still wear hose with my heels and skirt to work.
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As for wearing hose to work, you'll always be ready if a fire breaks out in the office.
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If I was a student, I'd expect the teacher to address me by my first name or by a title of respect preceding my surname (Mr./Ms.) If I was a teacher, I'd address the matter of my name during the opening remarks of my first class and repeat it at the second class if there are new students. "This is English Composition 101. I'm e_d_young, associate professor in the English Department. You can call me Professor Young." If I wanted to attempt humor, I'd add on "Or you can call me Marchioness d' Youngsborough."
Also, I haven't seen Americans address each other by surname only. When did that start? Or are you not in the U.S.?
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