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    1. If a meeting has a specified end time, leave at that time, even if the meeting isn't over.
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    3. Bring something to work on in case the meeting starts late.

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    posted Saturday, 24 February 2007
    • So far, my new late policy is working well.
    • After all the snow we’ve had since right before Christmas, the sunny, warm weather of the past week seemed to make a lot of students feel spring feverish. Attendance wasn’t great this week—not disastrous, but not great—and now, with week 6 of the semester beginning on Monday, I have several students who have already missed three or more classes. My attendance policy clearly states that each absence after the second will result in a half-letter grade reduction in the student’s overall grade in the class. I have a sneaking suspicion that some students have forgotten that.
    • No student followed me into the bathroom this week!!!! Joy! Rapture!
    • I’ll be recording audio comments on two batches of papers I received from students this week. I’ll post soon on how that goes.
    • A colleague stormed out of a meeting with me and several others after proclaiming that my classes were easier than hers/his and implying that by giving students detailed information about how I evaluate their work I am “babying” them. I don’t understand the idea that students will learn more if they have to guess at what I am looking for. My colleague felt that “write an essay about ____” was enough instruction for a writing assignment and that anything more equates to watering down the curriculum. I should mentioned that my colleague teaches for another department, although I’m not sure how much that matters. I am quite baffled by this incident.
    • The colleague involved in the incident described in the last bullet point seems to loath community college students and faculty and seems quite miserable in her/his job, which leads me to another thing I am baffled about. If you hate community college students and faculty, why are you teaching in a community college? It can’t be the lucrative pay or the respect of society. I don’t get it.
    • Conservapedia should be fun to discuss with students, especially their list of “biased entries” on Wikipedia.

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    1. pi left...
    Sunday, 25 February 2007 10:07 am :: http://happyfish.typepad.com

    I would imagine that part of the reason your colleague does not like his students is because they turn in horrible papers for his vague, insipid assignments ;-)


    2. joanna left...
    Wednesday, 28 February 2007 7:24 pm :: http://www.giovannamaria.typepad.com

    It's too bad that the angry colleague can't get out and give his full time position to a deserving adjunct. The MLA guide sounds ridiculous if it doesn't give more attention to the adjuncts--you're right in that adjuncts outnumber fulltimers everywhere. Ours are organizing to form a union. Good on 'em, I say.