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[prof_smartypants]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

[mathspice]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

Hee hee. So funny. Another movie, perhaps?

[mathspice]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

Pour vous, Prof. Smarty Pants:  Partial Credit?

[caravaggiojr82]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

This is classic, smartypants.

I wonder whether the student got it?--did s/he laugh? I find so many of my students don't even notice when I crack such jokes (mine aren't as funny as this one!).

[llanfair]

I am impressed with my 8th grade son's algebra teacher at a private school--he does all or no credit per problem.  He even gives no credit if the math is correct but the label is incorrect! 
His example--a recipe with the wrong units.  Blech!!!
Funny enough, the kids have not learned to complain.  They are being taught real life. 

I have been reading this site to prepare my kids for their future.  I weep and cry with many of you, and laugh my butt off and have my kids come read over my shoulder as examples of what "really stupid" looks like.  This is fun!!

Thanks for letting me into your world, even if mostly as a lurker.  I solemnly swear that my kids, in 4-6 years, will NOT be entitled or snowflakey or clueless. 

Welcome, Belle! (We'll hold you to that.)

[post_functional]

In the "no good deed goes unpunished" file:

Presnott is having trouble in my class.  For remedial help and the consultation of an outside source, I recommend a website for him that is more practical (read: lots of pictures, charts and graphs) than the admittedly dense reading for the class.

Today: "I think that with what we're paying in tuition, we shouldn't have these verbose readings and then default to web sites because of the readings."

Welcome to grad school, Presnott.  Just be glad I didn't assign the original sources, in German.

[mended_drum]

A conversation with a student about the Vita Nuova:

Student:  "Dante makes me very, very angry."

Me:  "Why is that?"

Student:  "I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it's because the real Beatrice deserved to be remembered as something more than a glowing number-thing.  I mean, she was a girl, right?  A real girl?"

Me:  "Well..."

Student:  "I mean, he could have, like, stuck a wig on a stick and written poems at it, and I could tell just as much about her.  I liked Dido better in that other thing we read.  At least she gets to tell Aeneas off after she's dead.   Does Beatrice get to yell at Dante in the Divine Comedy?"

Me:  "You'll find out by the end of the semester."

Student:  "I'm going to read ahead.  That's okay, right?"

Me:  "Absolutely."

[canuckois]

A conversation with a student about the Vita Nuova:

Student:  "Dante makes me very, very angry."

Me:  "Why is that?"

Student:  "I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it's because the real Beatrice deserved to be remembered as something more than a glowing number-thing.  I mean, she was a girl, right?  A real girl?"

Me:  "Well..."

Student:  "I mean, he could have, like, stuck a wig on a stick and written poems at it, and I could tell just as much about her.  I liked Dido better in that other thing we read.  At least she gets to tell Aeneas off after she's dead.   Does Beatrice get to yell at Dante in the Divine Comedy?"

Me:  "You'll find out by the end of the semester."

Student:  "I'm going to read ahead.  That's okay, right?"

Me:  "Absolutely."

Ha, that's great.

Related to the conversation about staplers in another thread....a student approached me while everyone was handing in their papers yesterday:

Student: Would you like us to use staples or paper clips?
Me: Either is fine.
Student: But I don't have either, so.....
Me: <bemused pause> Then why did you ask me which to use?
Student: I was just checking.
Me: .......Just fold down the corner and hand it in.

I'm bringing a stapler to my other section today.  Sigh.

[big_giant_head]

A conversation with a student about the Vita Nuova:

Student:  "Dante makes me very, very angry."

Me:  "Why is that?"

Student:  "I'm not absolutely sure, but I think it's because the real Beatrice deserved to be remembered as something more than a glowing number-thing.  I mean, she was a girl, right?  A real girl?"

Me:  "Well..."

Student:  "I mean, he could have, like, stuck a wig on a stick and written poems at it, and I could tell just as much about her.  I liked Dido better in that other thing we read.  At least she gets to tell Aeneas off after she's dead.   Does Beatrice get to yell at Dante in the Divine Comedy?"

Me:  "You'll find out by the end of the semester."

Student:  "I'm going to read ahead.  That's okay, right?"

Me:  "Absolutely."

Ha, that's great.

Related to the conversation about staplers in another thread....a student approached me while everyone was handing in their papers yesterday:

Student: Would you like us to use staples or paper clips?
Me: Either is fine.
Student: But I don't have either, so.....
Me: <bemused pause> Then why did you ask me which to use?
Student: I was just checking.
Me: .......Just fold down the corner and hand it in.

I'm bringing a stapler to my other section today.  Sigh.

Not me, man.  I'm choosing to die on that mountain this semester.

[prof_smartypants]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

This is classic, smartypants.

I wonder whether the student got it?--did s/he laugh? I find so many of my students don't even notice when I crack such jokes (mine aren't as funny as this one!).

Yes, there was considerable laughter across the class. Little did they know how serious I was...

[prof_smartypants]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

Pour vous, Prof. Smarty Pants:  Partial Credit?

Thanks! That's awesome

[mathspice]

Immediately before the exam begins:

Student: Do you give partial credit?
Smartypants: Almost exclusively.

Pour vous, Prof. Smarty Pants:  Partial Credit?

Thanks! That's awesome

You're welcome. Fun, fun! I hope to create some math videos for my students to help them remember rules and things.

[grasshopper]

Not me, man.  I'm choosing to die on that mountain this semester.

I took on the beast one year, and vanquished it. I told them I wouldn't accept unstapled work, which meant that it would be handed in late and would lose late marks. By mid-term students were reminding each other to staple their work. It can be done, BGH! Stay strong!

[nebo113]

Not me, man.  I'm choosing to die on that mountain this semester.

I took on the beast one year, and vanquished it. I told them I wouldn't accept unstapled work, which meant that it would be handed in late and would lose late marks. By mid-term students were reminding each other to staple their work. It can be done, BGH! Stay strong!

I did the same, bgh!!!  I teach primarily developmental CC students, and they know better than to ever ask me for a stapler.  Moreover, I don't travel with pencils, pens, paper, textbooks:  those are the responsibility of the students.  Meanie that I am, I won't loan a pencil even for a second; I'm exposed to enough germs as it is, and I don't want them lingering on my pencil, waiting to enter a bodily orifice and smite me with swine flu or bird flu or asian flu or merely the common cold.

[concordancia]

Not me, man.  I'm choosing to die on that mountain this semester.

I took on the beast one year, and vanquished it. I told them I wouldn't accept unstapled work, which meant that it would be handed in late and would lose late marks. By mid-term students were reminding each other to staple their work. It can be done, BGH! Stay strong!

OMG, they would march right across the hall to complain to the chair. And then I would ask why they hadn't just gone into the office the other direction, through the workroom, where the stapler is. And my chair would still give me a lecture about how I am not teaching the students I have, how I need to learn to adjust...