How is it the middle of October? I have not written much in the past few months. Life has been ultra busy with the granddaughter’s sports and teaching classes at the local college. I have a pretty heavy load this semester, but I enjoy it a lot. The sports schedules are crazy. It seems like there will be an event every single day once basketball season starts between five granddaughters! I will not be able to make all of the games for all of them because some of them are playing at the same time on the same day. I hate that, but thank goodness for streaming. I’ll be able to be live in one place and stream the game that’s somewhere else on my phone!
Class is going fine. I love my college students. It is such a difference from having little people. There are still problems. My problems used to consist of bathrooms being flooded by too much toilet paper and someone eloping out the front door. With college students, my main issues are not turning in assignments and not capitalizing the word I! One of my classes is online, so I figure I might be talking to myself for two hours. I have figured out a way to combat that. I have them sign into the chat every so often during the class with an answer to a content question for bonus points. It’s working. They also have found out the hard way that they need to read their emails. This class is made up of high school seniors for the most part doing the College Credit Plus program. One of them decided to drop the class because of having to do a paper that was four pages long. Really? Maybe college isn’t for this person. I have never seen such lack of effort, not even with my worst third grader when I was teaching that grade level!
I had to send a reminder on the announcements to look at their attendance grades and their grades in general. This class is easy, honestly. It’s sit and get. Take a quiz. Complete two short assignments a week. WOW. I wonder how they will do when they get into the real meat and potatoes of college classes? I let them take their midterm with their notes. Guess what. The highest grade was an 88 B. Go figure.
The juniors and seniors are good. They turn in their work for the most part, but some of them still do not heed my advice about using the spellchecker! I told them their resume will not make it to the interviews if they have spelling errors in their submitted documents like the cover letter, resume, and so forth. I told my principal daughter in law that she needs to have the people she interviews do a handwritten, short paragraph about their teaching philosophy while they are waiting to be interviewed in order to see if they can spell and use correct grammar. That is pretty important when you are teaching children! My blood pressure rises when I see the small i used for capital I! Also, you do not want to send home newsletters with those misspellings!
Don’t get me wrong. These students are all good people! I enjoy chatting with them and reading their assignment submissions. I hope that they mature and decide to use their resources that are available with the writing. It may take a principal or a parent pointing out their mistakes to them in order to get this corrected. I think they think I’m just an old geeser!
Later…
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