I Am Always Thinking and Thinking
If I was a professor I'd be really chill. As someone who has struggled a lot with school due to not learning from a lecture format and also having disabilities that greatly hinder my focus and attention, I would be very mindful of this in my students.
I would make lecture completely optional. Some people do learn best through lecture and I would respect that and be there for those students, however I would post detailed notes of everything I covered each day so that people who do not learn that way or people with disabilities can study that way. (Having professors who provided notes always made a world of difference in my grades and greatly reduced my stress levels.) My exams would be online. This would help students who get anxiety being in a testing room. I wouldn't have a time limit on them and you would be able to go back over your answers, again to reduce anxiety. I don't care if people cheat. If you think about it, it doesn't matter. If they look up something they don't know, now they know it and learned it so that's actually a good thing. Or if they don't bother learning any of the material and just google everything then that's on them, doesn't affect me at all. Also college students have such a stressful tough time in general I would just want my class to be one people could enjoy and not worry about because I was always grateful for those classes.
I'd love to teach some sort of psych class someday, or maybe a class on sleep or dreams. I don't think any of that will ever happen because I don't really want to do the schooling required to become a professor, but it's nice to think about.
I think draconian strict professors are just awful and inconsiderate people. They have their heads up their own asses and think they know what's best for everyone and that their class should be the most important thing in everyone's lives. Ridiculous.
I would make lecture completely optional. Some people do learn best through lecture and I would respect that and be there for those students, however I would post detailed notes of everything I covered each day so that people who do not learn that way or people with disabilities can study that way. (Having professors who provided notes always made a world of difference in my grades and greatly reduced my stress levels.) My exams would be online. This would help students who get anxiety being in a testing room. I wouldn't have a time limit on them and you would be able to go back over your answers, again to reduce anxiety. I don't care if people cheat. If you think about it, it doesn't matter. If they look up something they don't know, now they know it and learned it so that's actually a good thing. Or if they don't bother learning any of the material and just google everything then that's on them, doesn't affect me at all. Also college students have such a stressful tough time in general I would just want my class to be one people could enjoy and not worry about because I was always grateful for those classes.
I'd love to teach some sort of psych class someday, or maybe a class on sleep or dreams. I don't think any of that will ever happen because I don't really want to do the schooling required to become a professor, but it's nice to think about.
I think draconian strict professors are just awful and inconsiderate people. They have their heads up their own asses and think they know what's best for everyone and that their class should be the most important thing in everyone's lives. Ridiculous.
