{"id":609,"date":"2009-09-30T00:46:45","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=609"},"modified":"2009-09-28T05:57:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T11:57:25","slug":"teaching-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"TEACHING UPDATE!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My students have completed their first paper, and are well on their way to the second. I&#8217;ve also graded my first paper, and been observed in class. How did I do?<\/p>\n<p>Good!<br \/>\nApparently!<\/p>\n<p>On the grading scale, it doesn&#8217;t look like I used many C&#8217;s or D&#8217;s. I had a couple awful papers that ended up as F&#8217;s, and a handful of really good papers that got A&#8217;s. and then most of the class ended up in the high to low B range. I&#8217;m pretty okay with that. It does indicate that perhaps I had a lot of &#8220;freebie if you did the work&#8221; points in there, since those who got the really low grades were the ones who did not get those. I&#8217;m trying to be fairly nice with having those points about, seeing as this is an entry-level course. Seems like the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>As far as being observed, that too went very well! My class didn&#8217;t, uh, do the assignment at all that day, so I&#8217;d probably put the class in the middle of the road as far as how successful the class was. We did get some discussion going, and that was good. I also got points for being very prepared and having a great sort of &#8220;classroom persona&#8221; and being able to ad-lib useful stuff from student feedback, which is awesome to hear.<br \/>\n(The best thing, though, was that there was no mention of my dress whatsoever. Take that, Mom! I win! Completely vindicated!)<\/p>\n<p>So yeah, I guess I&#8217;m doing as well as I think I&#8217;m doing? Probably? It&#8217;s all going pretty well in my class. Of course, there are already things that I&#8217;m probably going to change or fix next semester. But it&#8217;s good to know I already have the hang of this stuff. Very good to know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My students have completed their first paper, and are well on their way to the second. I&#8217;ve also graded my first paper, and been observed in class. How did I do? Good! Apparently! On the grading scale, it doesn&#8217;t look like I used many C&#8217;s or D&#8217;s. I had a couple awful papers that ended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,23],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getmeoutofthis.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}