{"id":289,"date":"2011-05-03T22:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T22:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katsudon.net\/?p=289"},"modified":"2013-01-25T08:33:18","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T08:33:18","slug":"schools-out-all-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katsudon.net\/2011\/05\/03\/schools-out-all-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"School&#8217;s Out All Summer!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DONE WITH GRADING DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>So, other than the grading, I had way more fun teaching this semester than I did last semester. Probably because I like sed\/strat WAY more than I ever liked mineralogy. Hopefully everyone had a reasonable amount of fun with it. Though the one problem with teaching a class that I really enjoyed when I was an undergrad is that I wanted all of my students to just love it as much as I did&#8230; and of course, that&#8217;s not going to happen. Some geologists are sedimentary people, some just aren&#8217;t. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m already working to improve the assignments and materials for next semester, since no matter what I&#8217;ll be teaching this lab at least once more. One of the harder things I&#8217;m trying to do is develop a grading rubric for one of the major projects, since I think that&#8217;ll help me grade, and also help the students figure out exactly what I&#8217;ll be expecting from them. I ended up using the rubric for grading this semester, but only as a very fuzzy guideline where I erred on the side of being nice. It seemed to work out mostly, but I&#8217;ve got to do some fine-tuning before next spring. Which really means doing it some time this week, before all the motivation gets sucked out of me. <\/p>\n<p>One thing that&#8217;s really starting to drive me nuts is just how many points get lost over students just not reading the directions, or not answering the actual question that&#8217;s asked, or things like that. And I always feel just a little guilty, taking points off if something is done in pencil instead of pen, but then again, damnit, I said on multiple occasions that it needed to be done on pen.<\/p>\n<p>Though I feel less guilty for deducting points for the assignment being handwritten instead of typed. My eye strain on all the terrible handwriting makes me feel much, much less charitable. <\/p>\n<p>But anyway. That&#8217;s pretty much done with teacher stuff for the semester. Grades have been sent off to my advisor, and all that&#8217;s left is a bit of cleanup. I think I did pretty well for my first semester on this class &#8211; next spring ought to be even better!<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LEbNrgRU6Ww\/TcCAg7JO6cI\/AAAAAAAAGQk\/cwL8I6B4rUk\/s1600\/289811547.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LEbNrgRU6Ww\/TcCAg7JO6cI\/AAAAAAAAGQk\/cwL8I6B4rUk\/s320\/289811547.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>And many thanks to Loki, who helped me in this time of great stress by laying on top of the papers and refusing to be moved. <\/p>\n<p>Also, my friend David seems to have a blog now: <a href=\"http:\/\/trekker02.blogspot.com\/\">Unintelligently Designed<\/a>, which wins for its name if nothing else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DONE WITH GRADING DONE DONE DONE DONE DONE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!! So, other than the grading, I had way more fun teaching this semester than I did last semester. Probably because I like sed\/strat WAY more than I ever liked mineralogy. Hopefully everyone had a reasonable amount of fun with it. 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