This is week 4 of the spring semester, and I just got through to my Development of Math class. They've been complaining all along about homework and quizzes and exams and the course content and anything else they can think of. They've been unresponsive in class and out. They don't ask questions, they don't e-mail and they don't request appointments to see me during office hours. They're like high school students, only older, but with the same apathy towards school. I think they expect to pass just because they signed up for the class. I keep thinking, "Is this what college is like now?"
But last night, something finally clicked with them. For some reason, they started responding. They asked questions, they responded to mine, they talked to me about different issues during break and, I think, finally resigned themselves to the fact that this is a Math class, not a history class. (It appears that the counselors sell it as a history class with little or no math. Ummmm, it's a history of math class, there has to be some math in it. . . . In fact, one student even brought that up in the middle of class.)
So last night, I came home jazzed about teaching this class for the first time this semester.
4 comments:
There are a lot of lazy college teachers and it makes the students lazy too. Then there are the few who really hope to teach their students something . . . when they come along, it's hard for a student to switch gears! Especially if they are there to get a degree, rather than to learn!
I'm glad your students finally decided you are one of the good teachers!
Love you!!
I've noticed that the fresh-out-of-high-school kids are the worst college students. Older students are much more applied. Maybe it should be a requirement that everyone work a few years before going to college.
I think college has become the new high school. It is sort of expected that you will go to college, because you can't get a good paying, room-for-advancement job without one. But not everyone belongs in college. . .some people just aren't cut out for it and some just plain old don't want it. So, we have the same situation as in high school: people who have to be here, not people who want to be here!
I thought i was doing ok with my hs education...lol, rofl, and just think without us under educated simple minded soldiers you would really be in a world of Sh#@!
Love
Dave
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