MJ's little flock

[RoyalChick]

Thank you. I'm getting to the point where I'm scared to fail people, which is not good for state or the students who need to observe how poor their work is.

That is really not good.
Stay strong!

 

[Ribh]

That is really not good.
Stay strong!

I don't get this. How else do you learn? I'm on the other end of this & appreciate all feedback. At lot has changed since I did my first degree & I'm still struggling to get my citations right but every mistake is a chance to learn what I need to change. Of course it's nice to be told your work is wonderful but it's the other you really learn from. I'm blessed in that I'm not reliant on grades for future employment but i feel for their future employers. These are the people who don't know the work, don't want to work but expect top dollar. It really boggles my mind.

 

[MaryJanet]

I don't get this. How else do you learn? I'm on the other end of this & appreciate all feedback. At lot has changed since I did my first degree & I'm still struggling to get my citations right but every mistake is a chance to learn what I need to change. Of course it's nice to be told your work is wonderful but it's the other you really learn from. I'm blessed in that I'm not reliant on grades for future employment but i feel for their future employers. These are the people who don't know the work, don't want to work but expect top dollar. It really boggles my mind.

Broadly speaking, mature students understand all that.

The immature ones don't. I recently learnt year 12 teachers spend the second half of every year chasing up on students who are neglecting their assessments. To keep their school's stats up? Generosity towards hapless students? To enable young people's achievements? I don't know why, but I wish they would let the kids fail instead of demonstrating deadlines are meaningless.

 

[MaryJanet]

That is really not good.
Stay strong!

I try.

I'm engaged in course redevelopment at present and making a swathe of improvements to uplift students understanding of their performance, to protect staff from malice, to prevent inappropriate use of AI in assessment, to better inform and guide marking, to build staff camaraderie and support, etc.

 

[MaryJanet]

@Ribh, wrt your citations, are you using EndNote or something similar?

 

[BY Bob]

I have been extremely frustrated for about a month Bob.

Today I received a kind email from a student who called me an inspiration and who said she recalled my conversations with her from two years ago and I was so vulnerable from all the nastiness I've been experiencing, it brought me to tears.

Those must be the students who inspired you to this profession in the first place and who likely keep you going. It seems this request showed up at a very opportune time. I'm glad that it did.

 

[MaryJanet]

Those must be the students who inspired you to this profession in the first place and who likely keep you going. It seems this request showed up at a very opportune time. I'm glad that it did.

I also had a good chat with the dean today while co-forming his response to yet another complaint about marking. I mentioned that the course used to achieve the best student feedback scores in STEM before it was changed by the program directors to a non-graded, intensive studio course 5 years ago. I said I used to take pride in my teaching, but I don't any more. He said I should be proud and commented on how good the course is, and to not let the complaints get to me.

I'm still the only one with a national teaching award in the IT program. That's something I guess.