Hey, the second week of Fall Semester (Koki) was easy cause Thursday was a national holiday, so I only had two days of classes.
I decided to try a new approach (slightly) with my big Introduction to American Culture and Literature class: I'll try to avoid calling out the names of sleeping or smart-phone using students to shape them up by embarrassing them, because one student wrote in the class evaluations at the end of last semester that when I do that it interrupts the flow of the class. So I'm taking that on board and henceforth I'm going to try just remembering which students are sleeping or using smart phones etc. and take points off their grades without calling them out on it in class. I will risk interrupting the flow of the class to stop students from talking to each other when I'm lecturing, though, because letting them talk distracts other students around them. Part of me can't believe I'm having to deal with this kind of thing in university classes, but that's the way things are here now. ANYWAY, I did enjoy last class a lot--most of the kids are attentive and alert and trying to listen and learn.
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