Yeah. What makes me so happy about this one is that it isn't a generic "Ori is great." This eval says that what I was trying to do worked - the anecdotes, and the broader themes, and making them feel like they actually learned something. I have my own teaching style now, and at least for some students, it is effective.
Of course, it is worth noting that the 1/3rd of students who rarely attended class don't seem to have put down comments on the evaluation, so maybe it doesn't work well for everyone.
I think sometimes, once I'm more firmly established, of doing a set of podcasts w/accompanying images, which, as long as I'm in MI, is probably about as close as you'll get.
The problem of course would then be how to convince my actual students to keep showing up.
Awesome. One for the tenure file, definitely--so helpfully concrete and specific, too. (Both for your feedback purposes and for the file. heh.) Some of the time, students have these favorable, glad thoughts, and they say some of it verbally when meeting you in the corridor a year later but do not (or cannot?) put those thoughts onto the course eval sheet. And in this case, of course, there'd be no corridor a year later....
Yay.
Another friend posted about the murkiness of the eval process recently.
in nothing helpful to ori (besides 'wow fantastic response!'), all i can say is how small the academic world is:
ori posted, thistleingrey-who-don't-think-i-know linked to a similar post, the linked person linked again to a post on gamification, which is by a guy i knew in grad school because he kept hitting unsuccessfully on one of my best friends that everyone thought i was dating....
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Yes, you're doing the right thing. Very very much.
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Of course, it is worth noting that the 1/3rd of students who rarely attended class don't seem to have put down comments on the evaluation, so maybe it doesn't work well for everyone.
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The problem of course would then be how to convince my actual students to keep showing up.
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Yay.
Another friend posted about the murkiness of the eval process recently.
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ori posted, thistleingrey-who-don't-think-i-know linked to a similar post, the linked person linked again to a post on gamification, which is by a guy i knew in grad school because he kept hitting unsuccessfully on one of my best friends that everyone thought i was dating....
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