🚀 go-pugleaf

I am finding this thread quite interesting.  It is fascinating to see how
many of us (and I include myself in this) are taking full responsibility
for the learning of our students.  I have noted the comments about
students who will not do homework problems unless there is some sort of
extrinsic reward attached directly to them.  This is really too bad - I
know my own students are somewhat the same - perhaps we are wrong in
assuming all students are capable of doing well in physics.  Last
semester I had two particularly lazy groups of students who were not
doing the homework in spite of repeated warnings from me - I saw several
parents at our parent night (many more than usual) all asking why their
children were not doing well in physics and all claiming that nobody was
doing well in my courses.  After I corrected this little fallacy, I saw a
lot of very sheepish students the next day.  However, many of them did
start doing a lot better after that point in time.
I guess my point is that maybe we need to start taking less
responsibility for our students and let them take more for themselves.
After all, who is going to watch out for them when they move on to the
next level?


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* Nancy Kerr                       *
* Winnipeg MB                      *
* nkerr@minet.gov.mb.ca            *
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