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Macsenour | 8 years ago

So basically, she thought it was OK to make fun of students when they asked a question that had been asked already. Wow, so sorry I missed being in her class...

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ashark|8 years ago

Some context that may be relevant. Something like the following is not uncommon, at pretty much any grade level:

Teacher T, Student S (not always the same student), Students Ss

T: "I've put the exact steps you need to follow on the board, right here. Repeat that back to me."

Ss: "The steps are on the board."

T: "Great. Any questions? No? Makes sense? Cool, get started!" (walks among students to check work and help as needed)

(10 seconds later)

S: What do we do first?

T: It's on the board. Right there. The step labelled "1". And first on the list. Is there part of it you don't understand?

S: Oh, no, I just didn't know it was there.

(2 minutes later)

T: Uh, are you done?

S: No. I just didn't know what to do next.

T: Did... you do all the steps? On the board?

S: Oh, right! No, just step 1.

(5 minutes later)

S: Mr/Mrs T, what's step 3?

T: Did you check the board?

S: Uhhhhh, oh yeah.

(this happens some more. 6 hours later)

T: (grading papers. Several students missed one or more steps.)

(next day)

S: Why is my grade so low?

T: You didn't do step 4. At all.

S: I didn't know what to do there.

T: (points at list, still on board)

S: Oooooh, yeah.

T: (sneaks whisky from desk to make it through the day without killing self or others)

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VLM|8 years ago

How long have you been teaching grad students?

(In a non-personal non-doxing manner, I'm just saying you read like my sister-in-law kinda and she's got 20 years in. Which sounds like a prison term. Um...)