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Ugh. It's not done, yet.

The "enthusiasm" item feels like it's halfway to the "flair" interaction in Office Space. Force an undefined sufficient level of enthusiasm or lose your job.

"Command of the class" ?! This is offensive to me, at a gut level. I don't want to "maintain command" of any class. I'm there to teach. Students are there to learn. If neither of those continues to be true, we do something else. If behavior in the class makes learning difficult I might ask someone to change their behavior or--in extreme situations--ask them to leave (and in one or two instances I have left). I'm not trying to control others' behavior. I'm in a learning situation that is mutually beneficial; if it stops being that way, we stop doing it, that's all. My philosophy of higher ed (to the extent I have one) has no place for me to be an authority figure in any way beyond simply knowing some things others don't.

How do you treat all students with respect in a lecture? How do you even have an interaction with each student that allows for the possibility? Why is "respect for students" the only item about an instructor's interpersonal attitude or orientation toward students? I would expect something else, like dedication to their learning, commitment to providing them with an effective educational opportunity, recognition of their inherent worth as humans, etc. Of course the "respect" language is probably a shove toward the customer service model of higher ed, but it also feels like a slide toward "dominance" language (the number of times I've heard some thin-skinned blowhard demand "respect"...).

How does "maintaining command of a class" fit with "treating students with respect"? I don't feel respected by people who want to control me, and neither should students.

The final message, of course, is that I'm burnt out and have little desire to be part of the administrative system being increasingly worked into all cracks and crevices in the university experience at my school.

#highered #professor #teaching #psychometrics #assessment #validity #educorporate

Ugh. It's not done, yet.

The "enthusiasm" item feels like it's halfway to the "flair" interaction in Office Space. Force an undefined sufficient level of enthusiasm or lose your job.

"Command of the class" ?! This is offensive to me, at a gut level. I don't want to "maintain command" of any class. I'm there to teach. Students are there to learn. If neither of those continues to be true, we do something else. If behavior in the class makes learning difficult I might ask someone to change their behavior or--in extreme situations--ask them to leave (and in one or two instances I have left). I'm not trying to control others' behavior. I'm in a learning situation that is mutually beneficial; if it stops being that way, we stop doing it, that's all. My philosophy of higher ed (to the extent I have one) has no place for me to be an authority figure in any way beyond simply knowing some things others don't.

How do you treat all students with respect in a lecture? How do you even have an interaction with each student that allows for the possibility? Why is "respect for students" the only item about an instructor's interpersonal attitude or orientation toward students? I would expect something else, like dedication to their learning, commitment to providing them with an effective educational opportunity, recognition of their inherent worth as humans, etc. Of course the "respect" language is probably a shove toward the customer service model of higher ed, but it also feels like a slide toward "dominance" language (the number of times I've heard some thin-skinned blowhard demand "respect"...).

How does "maintaining command of a class" fit with "treating students with respect"? I don't feel respected by people who want to control me, and neither should students.

The final message, of course, is that I'm burnt out and have little desire to be part of the administrative system being increasingly worked into all cracks and crevices in the university experience at my school.

#highered #professor #teaching #psychometrics #assessment #validity #educorporate

Ugh. It's not done, yet.

The "enthusiasm" item feels like it's halfway to the "flair" interaction in Office Space. Force an undefined sufficient level of enthusiasm or lose your job.

"Command of the class" ?! This is offensive to me, at a gut level. I don't want to "maintain command" of any class. I'm there to teach. Students are there to learn. If neither of those continues to be true, we do something else. If behavior in the class makes learning difficult I might ask someone to change their behavior or--in extreme situations--ask them to leave (and in one or two instances I have left). I'm not trying to control others' behavior. I'm in a learning situation that is mutually beneficial; if it stops being that way, we stop doing it, that's all. My philosophy of higher ed (to the extent I have one) has no place for me to be an authority figure in any way beyond simply knowing some things others don't.

How do you treat all students with respect in a lecture? How do you even have an interaction with each student that allows for the possibility? Why is "respect for students" the only item about an instructor's interpersonal attitude or orientation toward students? I would expect something else, like dedication to their learning, commitment to providing them with an effective educational opportunity, recognition of their inherent worth as humans, etc. Of course the "respect" language is probably a shove toward the customer service model of higher ed, but it also feels like a slide toward "dominance" language (the number of times I've heard some thin-skinned blowhard demand "respect"...).

How does "maintaining command of a class" fit with "treating students with respect"? I don't feel respected by people who want to control me, and neither should students.

The final message, of course, is that I'm burnt out and have little desire to be part of the administrative system being increasingly worked into all cracks and crevices in the university experience at my school.

#highered #professor #teaching #psychometrics #assessment #validity #educorporate