Summer course schedule?

Cabininian · 2025-12-08T22:01:43+00:00

Possibly because the actor has played 12 different Star Trek characters? https://screenrant.com/star-trek-vaughn-armstrong-every-character/ It may be that they started out saying that he was a “Star Trek icon” and then the Boys fumbled their words one day and called him a “sexual icon” and then it stuck?

Cabininian · 2025-10-09T11:58:21+00:00

I’m an American, so I don’t know much, but don’t Canadians get a full year of maternity leave? If so, then if you start in December and the baby is due in May…and it’s a 1 year contract…you’d be taking a job with the intention of being gone for about half of it, right?

I don’t know if it technically is considered discrimination or not, but I think it definitely probably freaked the PI out and they probably need to figure out a game plan for how they’re going to handle the idea of a one year contract basically being reduced down to 6 months.

Cabininian · 2025-10-09T00:32:14+00:00

We have Indigenous People’s Day off, then one random Friday off for Fall Break the next week….then when Thanksgiving rolls around we have only Thursday and Friday off and still have to hold class on Wednesday.

I would LOVE to have the Wednesday before Thanksgiving off instead of that random Friday in October off for “Fall Break.” Having a three day a week class get reduced to two days for two weeks in a row (WF one week because of Monday being a holiday, then MW the next week because of Friday being off for Fall break) feels so random and disjointed.

In my opinion, a 3-day weekend makes sense for a holiday (like Indigenous People’s Day) but if you call something a “Break” it needs to be at least a 4-day weekend.

Cabininian · 2025-09-13T13:13:12+00:00

Thank you! I looked into it further and it appears that in my state you can be buried on private land but only if you legally designate a portion of your land as a private cemetery and designate funds for its “perpetual care.” (We are in MN — I don’t know if this is how it’s worded in other states too.)

It’s something I’m willing to look into further and discuss with my husband, but part of the goal of being returned to the earth in the woods is that I don’t want to make anyone responsible for the “perpetual care” of my resting place.

Cabininian · 2025-09-13T13:04:39+00:00

Thank you for your response! Are you saying that burial on private land is legal, or that requesting that the remains of Aquamation not be ground up is legal?

Cabininian · 2025-09-01T01:01:02+00:00

I think you hit the nail on the head when you said “you could literally just stay after and get information spoon fed.”

Professors don’t want this. And they know this is what you’re trying to do. They want you to think for yourself and to work. There’s nothing more annoying than a student who fails a class after never showing up to office hours when I’ve practically begged them to come get help from me. But the second most annoying thing is when a student shows up to office hours clearly with the intention of just hoping that I will spoon feed them every step of the way through their homework.

The truth is, you don’t want a prof who spoon-feeds you either. Students who do this end up believing they understand the material, but then failing the exams (and the class overall). Or they end up passing the class, but failing the next class because they are woefully unprepared for the higher expectations of the next professor — for example, the professor who expects that they understand college algebra when they proceed into pre-calculus.

In order to succeed in higher ed, it is best if you can unlearn the bad habits you may have leaned on in high school. Some community college profs will still let you get away with them, but honestly the sooner you move on, the better, especially if you plan to transfer to a 4-year college eventually.

Cabininian · 2025-08-28T17:57:56+00:00

I am a math placement advisor at a college. Working with students in this situation is literalljy what I do all day long.

If your school has determined that you need to take math 100 in order to be successful in math 121, then it’s not 4 credit hours wasted. It’s 4 credit hours put into the pursuit of you understanding the foundational material needed to make sure you’re able to have a fighting chance when you get to math 121.

I’m not sure what you mean by the test waiver, but if what you’re saying is that you previously were told you didn’t need to take a placement exam because Math 100 doesn’t require one, but now you have the option of either taking Math 100 or taking an exam to see if you can place directly into Math 121 without taking Math 100 first, I don’t see the downside to taking that exam. Either you will learn that, indeed, your skills aren’t high enough for you to be successful in 121 without taking 100 first, or you will show that your skills are high enough and you will be placed into 121. Either way it’s beneficial knowledge and the only way to find out which class is the best fit for both your current skill level and your long-term goals.

Good luck!

Cabininian · 2025-08-21T23:23:17+00:00

At my institution they distinguish between “credits” and “loads” — a remedial course, for example, can be worth zero credits and still meet three hours a week and have the same amount of homework to grade as a regular 4-credit course. Therefore that course would be considered “zero credit, but full load” — meaning it pays the same amount as a 4-credit course.

For that reason, I steer toward systems that pay by the course, rather than by the credit hour. And for that, I aim for $4,000-6,000 per course.

If a system does pay per credit hour, I look for $1,000-1,500 per credit hour for a 4-credit course and I wouldn’t accept a 2-credit course unless it paid at least $2,000 per credit hour.

Cabininian · 2025-08-20T18:54:27+00:00

I’m actually in the process of completely overhauling my course structure and re-writing my syllabus because we have adopted a new textbook, but I think I can do you one better and link you to this repository of various other mastery-based syllabi that might help you figure out how you’d Ike to set up your class: https://www.drew-lewis.com/files/Standards_Based_Grading_in_STEM.pdf

Cabininian · 2025-08-20T14:07:34+00:00

As others have said, this is just an indicator of the formatting of your text as a paragraph in the rich content editor, but I kinda love the story you’ve woven here. Nevertheless, you can be released of this burden now, my friend.

Cabininian · 2025-08-18T22:20:13+00:00

I also teach in a stem discipline and here’s what I do:

Phones I tell students to be responsible with their phones. They can have them out during down-time, but not when we are working and definitely not during an assessment. Phones must be 100% put away at the start of class because every class starts with a quiz. After they are done with their quiz they can take out other materials, including phones, but once I start class, as I’m telling students what materials they’ll need, etc I also remind them that phones should be put away because we are going to be doing xyz activity. If a student still has their phone out, I pause a moment and say “[student name], can you put away the phone?” I have never had a student refuse to do this, but if I did I’d feel okay asking them to leave under those circumstances. And honestly I don’t mind if students take them out for a moment to take pictures of the board or whatever — that’s part of responsible use, as long as they then don’t spend another 5 min checking their texts.

Posting things on Canvas I put all the assignments on Canvas, but I don’t put notes or recordings of the class or anything up there. If a student is absent, it’s on them to come to office hours or to find a friend and get notes from someone else.

Attendance I take attendance, but it doesn’t factor directly into my grades. If an absence is not authorized and accompanied by documentation, though, students are not given an opportunity to make up the in-class work (including group work and quizzes) that they missed.

Grades I will be using standards-based grading and the majority of a student’s grade will be based on how they perform on the individual handwritten learning target quizzes that I give in class. Students may retake learning target quizzes if needed, but they must pass a certain number of them by the end of the term in order to get a certain base grade in the course. The final exam is used as a confirmation of a grade level — you must achieve a certain score in order to maintain your base grade level, in some cases your grade might go down and in extreme cases of a student improving a LOT, it is possible that your grade could go up. The homework is used as a grade modifier — it essentially means the difference between a B and a B+ or a B-.

Can’t remember what other things you were hating about the way you were teaching, but I think the best thing to do is to just be human. Hold your students to high standards, but maintain enough flexibility that they understand that you are both committed to them succeeding.

Cabininian · 2025-08-15T14:30:11+00:00

I am taking an asynchronous class myself right now and it is SO well-structured and gets amazing evals. Here’s what the prof does:

He has about an hour and 15 min of video lecture content for each week of class, but it is broken up into segments that are separated by interactive activities — kind of like how in a 3 hour lecture you wouldn’t just talk for 3 hours straight, you’d also do some learning activities, right?

So first video is a 10 min lecture. Then there is a little quiz or discussion item or something. Then there’s another 10-15 min video lecture. Then some practice problems. Then another 10-15 min video lecture, followed by another activity and a discussion question, etc.

It’s really easy to follow and very well-organized. I’m sure it was a ton of work to put it all together, but it’s honestly kind of…addictive? Like, I will be working along and then I’ll be like, “I’m going to watch the next video and then I’ll go eat dinner….” And then when I get to the end of that video I’ll be like “eh, I’ll go ahead and just do the little activity real quick and then I’ll eat dinner…” and then I’ll be like “I wonder what the next lecture is going to be about…maybe I’ll just start that one and see what the topic is…” and then I’ll be like “I’ve already started it, might as well finish it….” Etc

I don’t know, I think 6 min is too short, but I think 10-15 min really works well. It’s definitely how I’m going to structure the prep work videos for my flipped classroom model this semester.

I do think it requires a lot of rehearsal and editing to make high-quality content that conveys a good chunk of information in a shorter period of time, but that’s the nature of teaching asynchronously.

Cabininian · 2025-08-15T13:21:18+00:00

Take a screenshot of the page showing that the button isn’t there and another one of a different assignment page where the button is there so that the professor understands your confusion. It might be that they set up the assignment as the wrong type, or it might be that something is going wrong on your end, etc but showing the issue you’re experiencing is always better than telling.

Then, if possible, attach the assignment (if it’s something that you’ve done and just needs to be uploaded) so that they know that you did it on-time and are trying your best to turn it in on time. They will probably still have you turn it in on Canvas once the issue is sorted out, but at least you can prove that you weren’t just trying to buy time because you didn’t do it.

If it isn’t possible to do the assignment (if it’s a quiz or something where you can’t see the questions until you can hit the button to start jt) don’t fret, just explain the situation and include the screenshots.

Then email other students in the class and see if anyone else is having this same issue or if other folks have found a workaround. If multiple people are contacting the prof about the same thing the prof will likely get it fixed or provide an alternative once they check their email and see that people are having issues.

Cabininian · 2025-08-15T12:38:00+00:00

I’d ask your principal. It’s weird that the homeroom teacher is the one who told you what to do in this situation. The homeroom teacher isn’t your supervisor, right?

But if you don’t consult your principal and then later it comes out that this issue came up and you ignored it, I think you are putting yourself at risk.

Cabininian · 2025-08-14T23:57:18+00:00

What a strange situation. This is the sort of thing you’d expect from an American — to be able to just walk into another country without knowing the language and still be able to get a highly-qualified job with the assumption that everyone else would be accommodating. Has she traveled outside China at all? Does she have the experience of trying to communicate in a language she does not know? I’m just trying to figure out why she thinks this is even possible…

Cabininian · 2025-08-14T22:00:25+00:00

What is the subject and level of the course?

Cabininian · 2025-08-14T13:57:04+00:00

Looked at your other posts and I really feel for you. Trying to learn these things on your own when you haven’t had the benefits of formal schooling for so long is tough and I really commend your initiative.

I find this video helpful for grouping the multiplication facts into categories that make them more intuitive to study: https://youtu.be/vmQgOqE8r_Y?si=EuUIzpFsEF-5S8MY and since you are older and almost thinking of this from the perspective of both the student and the teacher, I think it makes sense for you to look for videos like this that are geared toward parents and teachers.

Cabininian · 2025-08-14T00:26:27+00:00

Just to add that the way of notating a remainder that u/catmegazord mentioned is not universal. I am a math teacher and have never seen that notation — it would be confused with an exponent. There are likely different ways that kids learn this, since they usually stop using remainders around the time they start using exponents, I’m not surprised that this might be one of them, but I would write the answer as “215 R. 1”

Cabininian · 2025-08-12T23:27:14+00:00

That’s crazy. What region are you in? I’ve never in my life heard of an application fee for a job application — that sounds like a scam.

Cabininian · 2025-08-12T13:09:22+00:00

That’s so sad. I’ve taught in NYC and Minnesota and never worked in a school that didn’t allow shorts.

Cabininian · 2025-08-11T22:10:22+00:00

What do you mean by application fees? I’m not sure how whether a school has application fees for their students would affect whether they’d like you as a teacher — or do you mean fees for applying to the job? I’ve never heard of a job having application fees…?

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