But I am le frustrated...
Today was a good day.
I don't know that it still is, but it was.
I taught my class, came home, took a nap, went for a walk, finally got a Madison library card, and watched Vertigo. It was generally good stuff. I even felt like I might be motivated enough not to mind doing my homework tonight.
And then it all came crashing down...
Every day I just get more and more frustrated with the profs I'm teaching with. It's not (necessarily) that they're bad at teaching. I guess I don't really know, firsthand. I'm not supposed to go to their lectures, so I don't. But I've heard stories from my students...
But that's not the main issue I have. We had a test on Monday. Results were posted on Wednesday. The average score was a 54 out of 100. I wanted to look over a couple tests, so I went through and tried to answer all the questions. The answers were posted today. Comparing my answers to the actual answers, I would've gotten a 75 (with one dumb mistake and one lucky guess). And I'm the TA. And I used a book. This strikes me as absurd.
Now that I have the "right answers", I went back and checked the problems I got wrong. I'm willing to concede the one I made a dumb mistake on and the two I didn't know how to do, even with a book. But there are two where I'm absolutely convinced the answers they gave are wrong. I let them know, but it just strikes me as the kind of thing that would be nice to take care of before the scores are sent out. Or at least the kind of thing it would be nice of them to let us look over before the exam. But maybe that's just me.
Aside from that, I spent a good chunk of time tonight solving the problems I'm supposed to teach tomorrow. I was given "solutions", but they didn't actually contain any useful information. Our book worked for about half of them. For the others I used a book from second semester sophomore year. It worked great.
But it kinda makes me wonder how my students are supposed to solve them. It's not like they've learned it. Nor do I get the impression that anyone should expect them to have learned it. But that's their problem, not mine, right?
I could try to teach them. But I feel like it's the kind of thing that we spent a good 2 or 3 lectures on when I learned it, which makes it tough to teach in half of a discussion period.
Sigh...
And the homework motivation's gone.
I don't know that it still is, but it was.
I taught my class, came home, took a nap, went for a walk, finally got a Madison library card, and watched Vertigo. It was generally good stuff. I even felt like I might be motivated enough not to mind doing my homework tonight.
And then it all came crashing down...
Every day I just get more and more frustrated with the profs I'm teaching with. It's not (necessarily) that they're bad at teaching. I guess I don't really know, firsthand. I'm not supposed to go to their lectures, so I don't. But I've heard stories from my students...
But that's not the main issue I have. We had a test on Monday. Results were posted on Wednesday. The average score was a 54 out of 100. I wanted to look over a couple tests, so I went through and tried to answer all the questions. The answers were posted today. Comparing my answers to the actual answers, I would've gotten a 75 (with one dumb mistake and one lucky guess). And I'm the TA. And I used a book. This strikes me as absurd.
Now that I have the "right answers", I went back and checked the problems I got wrong. I'm willing to concede the one I made a dumb mistake on and the two I didn't know how to do, even with a book. But there are two where I'm absolutely convinced the answers they gave are wrong. I let them know, but it just strikes me as the kind of thing that would be nice to take care of before the scores are sent out. Or at least the kind of thing it would be nice of them to let us look over before the exam. But maybe that's just me.
Aside from that, I spent a good chunk of time tonight solving the problems I'm supposed to teach tomorrow. I was given "solutions", but they didn't actually contain any useful information. Our book worked for about half of them. For the others I used a book from second semester sophomore year. It worked great.
But it kinda makes me wonder how my students are supposed to solve them. It's not like they've learned it. Nor do I get the impression that anyone should expect them to have learned it. But that's their problem, not mine, right?
I could try to teach them. But I feel like it's the kind of thing that we spent a good 2 or 3 lectures on when I learned it, which makes it tough to teach in half of a discussion period.
Sigh...
And the homework motivation's gone.
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