Emma Jonson What makes a good professor a bad professor?
If a professor attends only to his or her notes and never even looks at the students—or never pauses to invite or accept questions—it’s not a good thing. A good class is a dynamic class, and a good professor engages with the students. © Copyright 2010 Professors’ Guide LLC. All rights reserved.
What happens when you write a paper for a teacher?
This is where writing papers for class gets kind of weird. As Peter Elbow explains 1: When you write for a teacher you are usually swimming against the stream of natural communication. The natural direction of communication is to explain what you understand to someone who doesn’t understand it.
What kind of instruction does a college professor give?
The current emphasis on student-centered instruction is relatively recent; your instructors much more often had professors who adhered to the classic model of college instruction: they gave lectures together with, perhaps, one or two exams or papers.
Is it unethical to use the same paper in two classes?
So now that you know it’s considered academic dishonesty at universities to use the same paper in two courses, you would break the rules because you’re unlikely to get caught. That’s unethical. You should do something because it’s the right thing to do, not because you won’t get caught.
The professor never involves the students. If a professor attends only to his or her notes and never even looks at the students—or never pauses to invite or accept questions—it’s not a good thing. A good class is a dynamic class, and a good professor engages with the students.
What makes a professor fail his entire class?
He stressed that the students’ failings were academic as well as behavioral. Most, he said, couldn’t do a “break-even analysis” in which students were asked to consider a product and its production costs per unit, and determine the production levels needed to reach a profit.
How can you tell if a professor is a dud?
Here are our 10 surefire signs that your prof’s a dud—and that you should get out while there’s still time: 1. The professor is boring. Even in the very first classes, you can tell if the professor presents the material in an interesting way.
Why does my advisor not like me talking to other professors?
My advisor doesn’t like it when I talk to other professors. Your advisor tells you that you are not ready to talk to other professors, and if you do, you will embarrass yourself. They tell you that you are not up to the task of navigating a conversation with another professor.