Would you be a tough or an easy professor?

[Turkish]

I'm seeing a lot of "finals" threads lately and people are talking about 25/100 averages... so would you be a tough SOAB or an easy going cool guy?

I'd probably be a tough SOAB on the test but curve pretty big at the end of the semester to make sure almost nobody fails.

What about you?

 

[agnitrate]

I'm sure you'd do well in an insitution of higher education. Nobody fails? Do they play Candyland for the final or is it Everybody Wins?

-silver

 

[Mo0o]

I would be fair. Test on the material I taught with maybe one or two questions that involve higher level thinking. THen i would curve to a solid B

 

[Lamont Burns]

Fair as well.

However, don't expect me to let you never read the course material, and expect to coast with a B since you "tried hard." I saw that happen far too much at my university.

 

[Zysoclaplem]

I'd be fired a week into the 1st semester for an inappropriate relationship with 4 students.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Zysoclaplem
I'd be fired a week into the 1st semester for an inappropriate relationship with 4 students.

Can't get enough of the frat guys can you

 

[Feldenak]

I'd be like my database instructor. Not tough nor easy. Emphasis would be on learning the material and I'd be more inclined to grade on how much you learned rather than just regurgitating formulas and info back to me.

 

[kranky]

I used to teach at a technical school (sys admin stuff on minicomputers). My teaching approach was:

- Open book tests because you are allowed to use books on the job.
- Long tests because there's no point in having a short open book test. Long tests ensured that people who didn't study weren't going to have time to look everything up.
- Test questions designed to measure understanding, not memorization.
- Bring some humor into the classroom but make sure the work got done.
- Make sure that from the start everyone knew that they had to do the work if they wanted a good grade.

To make up an example, a question might be "List four factors to consider when setting up a backup strategy and why those factors matter." If they got that, I was comfortable that when the time came they could look up the commands and the syntax to use to actually carry out the strategy. I didn't see a point to asking questions about command syntax because you can look that stuff up if you need to.

I'd say I was tough but very fair.

 

[ggnl]

I would make my class more closely resemble what you would see in the working world.

I had a marketing professor that let us take our tests in groups using our notes. His justification was simple. You Very seldom in your career will you be in a situation where you cannot ask other people for help. To offset this, he made the tests very difficult, requiring a lot of analysis instead of simply regurgitating memorized facts.

 

[Kyteland]

I would be a tough teacher I think, especially where tests are concerned. My sister teaches high school math. I wrote a midterm for her honors geomerty class and a lot of people failed it. They all complained that it was too hard and she ended up having to curve it. They don't curve things in high school.

 

[machintos]

I would be tough.
If I didn't have it easy, the people I teach won't have it easy...

 

[flamingelephant]

I've graded stuff for university level courses for a professor. Not all that fun......... went through a bunch of essays for a history class.... some of the crap that was submitted was unbelievable! caught a couple people plagerizing.....they got 0...... too bad, so sad!

 

[3chordcharlie]

I would make unchangeable judgements about all the students, from an 'intellectual elitist' perspective, and then assign them a mark based on that.

In fact, after about the second class, I don't see why I'd need to keep lecturing

 

[Martin]

one word: payback :evil:

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Martin
one word: payback :evil:

Unless you're grading the professors it really isn't payback

 

[HonkeyDonk]

i'd be a fair prof...

whether or not that means tough or easy, who knows?

 

[gopunk]

well my class would be easy for those who are smart and study hard, and hard for those that don't. so whether that's tough or easy is up to you...

 

[SchrodingersDog]

You don't always have to fvck her hard.

 

[Tremulant]

I'd be fair, but a real a$$hole to anyone who is blatantly disrepsectful.

 

[CaptnKirk]

Have been, & expect honest effort.
You get what you earn - period.

 

[3chordcharlie]

Originally posted by: SchrodingersDog
You don't always have to fvck her hard.

take her easy. if she's easy; take her twice

 

[archiloco]

tough is more fun, but a lot more work.

 

[MetalMat]

Depends on how cool the class is. If I like the people in the class I would make it easy. If the class is being a bunch of sob's, then I would be tough.

 

[eigen]

I plan on being one some day ( MATH).

I have always thought that I would put more emphasis on projects/homework. Than on the tests.

 

[PrinceofWands]

I think most people will consider me tough. I demand thinking. I don't care about attendance, social aptitude, etc...but if you want a grade from me you had better dang well think things thru. I have zero tolerance for surface thinkers or social whores.

I think C's are about passing, and A's and B's are about excelling. If you do most of what I ask and show that you get most of the major points that's a C. If you go beyond that, show you're thinking about the finer points and so on, that's a B. To get an A I'd want to see you connecting what we were learning to other subjects, testing yourself and others, etc. School isn't about grades or jobs or social structures...it's about learning and critical thinking. The grades you earn should be a reflection of how deep/broad a thinker you are and nothing else.