Holy cow, it is cold outside. I guess there are hundreds of blogs across the Canadian prairies all saying the exact same thing right now, but boy is it cold! Whenever we have cold weather like this, I always freak out about my students, because I'm worried they won't dress warmly enough for the weather. I'll never forget the one time when one of my students got frost bite on his cheeks and nose. Both of his cheeks turned black along with the tip of his nose. It was really terrible to look at and very painful for the student. In the end, the tip of his nose fell off and now he has a frost bite scar on end of his nose. What's the moral of this story? Cover your nose with your scarf!
Anyway, that's enough about the cold . . . . let's talk about title pages instead. I was a bit dissapointed yesterday. Yesterday, both classes of EAP 3 had good copies of their essays on language learning due. In Ilana's class, all of the students except for one had an APA syle cover page, and they all counted how many words they wrote. You could translate that into the statistic that 95% of Ilana's students followed the proper format for a good copy in EAP 3. In my class, only 7 of my students had an APA style cover page and counted the words. That means only 32% of my students followed the proper format for a good copy in EAP 3.
Ilana 95%
Me 32%
What does this mean? Anyway, I'm handing back the incorrectly formated papers to my students today so that they can do a cover page and count the number of words they wrote. I have to admit I'm a little dissapointed because this year I wrote out an entire sample essay for them to follow. Or is it that I am too lax with my students, or I don't explain myself well enough? I know it seems a bit neurotic to harp on about something like a title page, but if students do follow the conventions set down by the instructor, it reduces their credibility in the eyes of that instructor. Oh well, I have decided not to freak out this time . . . but if it happens for the term paper . . . . . .
11 comments:
According to your students' saying, you're a funny but very strict teacher.....
Sorry, I'll try again! I was just writing that my fingers were too stiff to type since it's only 16 or 17 degrees in my room so I decided not to write a blog about the cold! Finally, Canadian winter is what I thought it would be!
BIG Sorry Scott!!!I forgot counting how many words I wrote. I promise this is the first time and also the last time!! I believe everyone will hand in perfect formal essays in the next time~~~Believe us.....:)
Canada is cold,so I wear many clothes like a big bear everyday.....LOL.
hi
i cover our nose got it any other advice to stay alive in this cold? since i go from and to the university walking
sorry for that.But I don't think you need to be sad because Ilana asked her students to do so several times .We'll remember that from now on.But one thing I really donnot like here is that it seems Canadians are wasting too much paper.I feel sorry for the trees.
The cover page and the counted number of words are not the most important but essays - short stories of your students :) So don't freak out, Scott. You'll see who's gonna win: You or Iliana... :)
I love EAP 3 because the teachers in EAP 3 are amazing. They should send all the EAP students to EAP 3 even if they are not good enough. Let them stay in EAP 3 a couple of semester is better, but I think Scott and Murray are gonna kill themselves. Anyway, I am so excited about Reading quiz because Murray told us there are some new tricky questions on this quiz. If you find he makes some big mistake, you can get some grade-grabbing. I think EAP 3 reading quizs are better than EAP 2 because EAP 2 reading quizs are from textbook(teacher edition)
I think every professor should have a blog, especially in language learning context. (maybe you should suggest Dr. Mezhevich to start posting on her because it's empty!:)) I miss that from my grammar teacher and I'm a bit jealous of your students even if they didn't all follow the APA format, at least they can interact more with their instructor and this is in my opinion more important than to follow a format which is only a one specific aspect of learning a language. Posting, interacting with his or her teacher is a richer approach to learn that just follow a single rule. So maybe your students have missed this APA format, but they have an extraordinary opportunity to interact with their grammar teacher which we (Ilana's students) don't.
martin
At the begging of the winter i was happy that we don't have cold winter this year ( to be honest, i did not think that this can be the effect of global warming). But I was WRONG. however, it is nice to have a -20 degree temperature, isn't it?!
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