Wow. You must have had a very nice, comfortable, and sheltered young adulthood.

Thank you! I’ll be sure to include your feedback in my employment file!

I don’t give them graded assignments as a group, I would never ever ever do that! But for in-class discussion I will sometimes break them up into groups. It works for some people who get nervous about speaking in front of a class of 45-60 people, but don’t mind speaking to 2-4. It helps me be fair to the shy kids but…

Interesting, many of our adjuncts do okay on evals because they just give scantron tests, no writing whatsoever. I get it, they’re paid almost nothing and have to teach a ton at several places generally to pay the rent, they don’t have time to grade writing. But then I get reviews saying that students “didn’t expect…

NO ONE wants more group work. Except maybe the people who don’t do shit for group projects, so their grades are actually boosted by the rest of their group’s work.

He seriously has admitted to giving students a “3.0" (okay, it’s more like a B- at my school) when by all accounts the student should have failed.

As you undoubtedly know, most students, even many of those at top universities, do not care about being intellectually challenged or stimulated. They’re not there to learn or better themselves, they just want/expect to get good grades so they can move on to whatever post-graduate degrees or high-paying, high-prestige…

We are kindred spirits. Except I can’t NOT read mine because I have annual reviews that rely HEAVILY on how students are rating me. And what the hell is a gentleman’s B??? Is that the professor being a gentleman or a throwback to when college students had to have a penis?

See, I did not even know that was a thing because I would never ever ever go to Rate My Professor. The fact that that exists as a metric for teachers just shows how utterly useless RMP is as a website. I’m going to go barf everywhere now.

No, they have just stolen, erased, and taken credit for the accomplishments of others more, while being really good at aggression and genocide. You can thank that neanderthal DNA for that.

RAGE STROKE. If I saw anything like that in my kid’s education, I would explode. As it is, I’m furious that so few kids’ books have girls and women in them.

Call me when your body gets invaded to continue the human race and we can talk about why women were constantly marginalized.

And care too much, and they’ll call you a nag. Seriously, I am not your mom.

I give my students a separate form to fill out about what assignments and readings they did or didn’t find useful, and what advice they would give to future students. But honestly, you can’t trust what they say. Half will say “too much group work” and the other half says “I wish there was more group work.” People…

This! I taught for 13 years and it was so clear that the female teachers we rated more on our empathy and mom-ness and the male teachers were rated more on charisma. Classroom discipline was almost never an issue for the guys, which left them so much more room to teach (were they inclined to do so). And lemme tell…

As a student I 100% support getting rid of student evaluations. I’ve had some not-great professors that I want to help by giving good, constructive feedback. But I can’t, because the evaluation surveys have been completely neutered due to students using the surveys as a way to abuse professors. There’s no option to…

Reason 1 million why I don’t read my own student evaluations and never will.* And why the only person in my department who has ever suggested basing the merit-based pay component of our salary on teaching evaluations was male.** I don’t need to read a teaching evaluation to know that they think I’m a bitch because I…

Hey, laser pointers are nice and all, but there’s nothing like having things pointed out by an erect penis. Can’t do that, can you ladies?

That might be true, but failing to inform the men about or treat their syphilis caused the spread of the disease to partners and children. Which basically amounts to purposefully infecting black people with the disease.

So, I haven’t watched the episode yet, but anyone else have some confusion about why the episode is titled “My Struggle,” or as it’s translated into German, “Mein Kampf”?