Tell me something good
Anything.
No matter how big or insignificant seeming.
Let’s keep it positive going into the weekend.
😊
No matter how big or insignificant seeming.
Let’s keep it positive going into the weekend.
😊
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DrWatson · 70-79, M
Today,a high school student and his father were making a campus visit. I bumped into them purely by chance. It turns out the father had been a Calculus student of mine during my first semester of college teaching years ago.
He had felt badly about how mediocre his performance had been, and how he had been unnerved by how hard the course was. I responded by telling him that as a new faculty member, I had been surprised at what a high-level textbook the department was using. I told him that I agreed that the course was insanely hard, and that we made big changes soon afterwards.
He said, "After all those years -- validation!'.
It was a good conversation.
He had felt badly about how mediocre his performance had been, and how he had been unnerved by how hard the course was. I responded by telling him that as a new faculty member, I had been surprised at what a high-level textbook the department was using. I told him that I agreed that the course was insanely hard, and that we made big changes soon afterwards.
He said, "After all those years -- validation!'.
It was a good conversation.
