Jonas on Students Monopolizing Time
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-College Senior |
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Engineering Education Research General Engineering, Engineering Science |
| Special Topic(s): |
Academic Careers and Issues Teaching and Learning Research Center |
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Reference - Article/Document |
| Author(s): |
Jonas Chalk |
| Description: | This is the question sent to the teaching advice column, Jonas Chalk: "I have two classes of about 35 students each. There are three students, one in the first class and two in the second, who (in my opinion) are responsible for slowing down both classes and for taking up a lot of my time outside of class. In class, I want to answers these students' questions, but they're preventing me from getting as far as I want each day with the course material. And while I want them to come to my office hours, they take up all of the allotted time and want extra time on top of that. To be honest, they're driving me crazy. What can I do?" |
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Part of the response "Believe me, you're not alone in having this problem. It often seems as though 5% of our students take up 90% of our time, both with in-class questions and requests for out-of-class help. I'm glad that you want to help them, because often they are the students who really need help; perhaps they don't get it the first time, but are willing to ask questions and put in the extra hours to understand the material." |
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Easy |
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Very low |
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| Publication Date: | August 2001 |
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WWW |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.jonaschalk.neu.edu/search_archives/display.php?id=77 |
| Metadata: |
IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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