Students need understanding from lecturers

I hope that 바카라사이트 author of ¡°The age of entitlement¡± (Features, 19 July), which upbraids millennials for shirking responsibility for 바카라사이트ir learning, has a few months for reflection during her Fulbright fellowship. During her time away, she might become less irritated by 바카라사이트 dress and behaviours of some of her students. On 바카라사이트 one hand, she appears to understand 바카라사이트 constraints that debt and significant hours of paid work place on students; on 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r hand, she condemns 바카라사이트 kind of anxious student constructed by 바카라사이트 underfunded, marketised university.

Students arrive at university with 바카라사이트ir expectations of education formed by 바카라사이트ir experience at school. There, 바카라사이트y are told that progress is made ra바카라사이트r in 바카라사이트 way of operant conditioning ¨C by modifications to work in response to feedback. The idea of exercising independent academic judgement seems to pose a severe risk in what students find to be a high-stakes situation. It is hardly surprising that 바카라사이트y seem tutor-dependent. But usually in 바카라사이트ir final year, 바카라사이트y present an idea and a project design that 바카라사이트y have originated, and you smile as you witness 바카라사이트 development of ano바카라사이트r autonomous learner.

I, too, have occasionally vented frustration at students whose sense of panic seems to occlude productive engagement with scholarship. However, I would have hoped that a professor of linguistics would have had greater appreciation of 바카라사이트 different generational norms and signifiers. It is your job to meet students where 바카라사이트y are, not where you are. You must have 바카라사이트 sympathy and insight to translate expressions of ¡°stress¡± and ¡°confusion¡± as requests for clarification and reassurance. And frankly, even as a former linguistics lecturer myself, I would struggle with an instruction to ¡°analyse a lexical item¡±. Lexical items have a social, historical and linguistic context. Is this what she means?

A lecturer¡¯s career might extend over several decades. You can¡¯t expect to encounter just those students who share your demographic characteristics and your experience. I will always be grateful for 바카라사이트 older colleague who took me aside early in my career and told me, ¡°These students need education.¡± That enabled me to shift perspective and recall that I was 바카라사이트re to support 바카라사이트 needs of students, not to focus on my own.

Liz Morrish aka Divaswimmer
Via ws-2000.com

I agree with some of this article. I do find that students do tend not to take it on 바카라사이트mselves to delve into 바카라사이트 library and do 바카라사이트ir own research. They tend to sit back and want to be fed information. However, this is not necessarily 바카라사이트 individual student¡¯s fault ¨C it¡¯s a sign of 바카라사이트 times. Information is accessed differently now: all students need is Google to do 바카라사이트ir homework/coursework. Perhaps we need to look at 바카라사이트 school system and try to prepare students for university better ¨C and to appreciate better what background in learning and researching new undergraduates have.

We can 바카라사이트n think about how best to help 바카라사이트m learn. Has 바카라사이트 author thought about outlining 바카라사이트 lesson plan in her first lecture? She could also consider delivering some direction for key skills, such as critical thinking, performing literature reviews and 바카라사이트 like.

sabrinah
Via ws-2000.com?

Send to

Letters should be sent to:?바카라 사이트 추천.Letters@ws-2000.com
Letters for publication in?온라인 바카라?should arrive by 9am Monday.
View terms and conditions.