The Little Professor offers a view of grading (and grade inflation) that closely resembles my own. It seems to come down to having expectations that fit your students.
I'm now teaching the same class I did last semester and for the first time I'm able to make some comparisons. What I'm learning is that I won't always be able to teach material with the same attention or enthusiasm I've done in previous cases. Who could be utterly consistent from one semester to the next, without becoming repetetive and dull? But the more important lesson seems to be that I also can't expect that my students will learn the same from semester to semester. (Things would change, I'd hope, if I were teaching some of the same students in an upper-level class.)
Posted by Heather at November 19, 2003 06:03 PM
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