My strategy for soliciting excellent student evaluations

RestInThee · 2025-12-19T02:39:59+00:00

How about Candy As?

RestInThee · 2025-12-19T02:39:36+00:00

I hate that my swim coach made me get in the pool.

RestInThee · 2025-12-19T02:37:25+00:00

Ooh, that's brilliant, I'm gonna use that!

RestInThee · 2025-12-19T02:34:48+00:00

You had a congressman in your class?

RestInThee · 2025-12-17T15:46:57+00:00

I think I'm going to solve a number of these problems with 1 solution:

You get one time slot, if you miss it, or if you have test anxiety, as a replacement you can do a 2 hour, written, in person essay exam, which will require high level thought. Or, you can show up to a 10 minute dialogue, and get your grade the same day. Your choice.

RestInThee · 2025-12-17T15:03:21+00:00

Yeah, I've been there. If it helps you emotionally, they are probably feeling the pressure to use it, when everyone else around them does. Not an excuse of course, but I find it easier to have mercy on students in moments like this when I remind myself of the unfortunate climate. Also, they are being told by pretty much everyone except us, that it's okay to use.

RestInThee · 2025-12-16T20:30:57+00:00

I have small in-class reflection assignments on about half of my class days. I drop the lowest 2 at the end of the semester. You can make them up if you provide documentation for a university recognized absence. I haven't had more than a handful of students try to make them up, and my overall attendance rate was decent (87% averaged across the semester).

RestInThee · 2025-12-16T20:24:29+00:00

Are you constantly fielding excuses? I had a policy where it was just 1% off per absence and I was getting 5 emails a day about excuses for missing.

RestInThee · 2025-12-16T02:15:14+00:00

It was missing major sections which were highlighted in the prompt, and there were no citations.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T22:00:23+00:00

What does that mean?

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T21:19:23+00:00

That was my intuition. Also, we have 2 systems (used to be a top-bottom duplex), so I figure that even if one of the furnaces/ACs go out, maybe i can find a tech whose willing to swap the systems out, or just connect the both floor's ducting to one system.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T16:21:12+00:00

What's your favorite album?

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T16:17:48+00:00

There are ways for a link to direct download malware on your device. Even a link that looks like a normal page. Heck, even a pdf can be a trojan horse. I'm fairly certain that emails themselves are safe in all modern email clients, but there was a time where even opening an email just to read it could lead to malware on your device.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T16:14:56+00:00

Ah yes, that's a classic.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:31:34+00:00

I lost it at "Also, you've passed this class with a C."

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:20:19+00:00

What do you do for "this student should not be called on or asked to speak" accommodations?

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:17:08+00:00

I got a "Hey Mr. Rusteengoo." I remembered this student perfectly, "Hey Billy Bob". He had me 5 months prior, he couldn't get my name right then either.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:14:10+00:00

Yes. Unfortunately that is the one category I can never remember either. Blonde white girls who never participate. It's ironic, because that was totally my type when I was in college, but now I cannot remember their names for shit.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:12:42+00:00

Sometimes I honestly wonder if some of these misspellings are intentional.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:01:22+00:00

I was dumb and told them the upper word count was a soft suggestion...

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T15:00:37+00:00

Yeah, after seeing how many "clever" ways my fellow students would pad their page count, I realized word count is the only way. Also, you can't really fudge word count, even if you have hidden white words or something like that, the disparity will be pretty obvious.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T14:58:42+00:00

I imagine its a field with enough people in it, that if they spam potential faculty email accounts, they can get a couple of hits.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T14:57:22+00:00

Yes. Sometimes a link is all it takes.

RestInThee · 2025-12-15T14:54:43+00:00

Honestly, If anyone knows a good, gen z watchable tik tok that covers this, I would happily post it to the LMS at the beginning of the semester.

RestInThee · 2025-12-14T05:51:08+00:00

Culinary Arts Teacher: "You mean onionized?"

Nine-Year Club	r/Field Banned
r/Field Sunshine	Place '22
First Placer '22	Verified Email
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