Teaching Unprepared Students

Excerpts from Dr. Sauder's presentation on Aug 30th 2011.


Guiding principles for teaching unprepared students

*) All students can become lifelong learners
*) Significant change requires commitment and time
*) Struggle is a necessary and important part of life
*) Students must accept responsibility for their learning progress
*) Professors should never do for students what students can do for themselves


Laboratory classes guidelines

*) Clean up the lab-related things after class gets done

Why Students Complain?

*) A professor does not do what he/she mentioned earlier
*) A student is not doing well in a course
*) Professor is too hard to follow
*) Professor is unreachable by student
*) Professor does not show up for the class
*) Instructor does not care about if students are following or not
*) Instructor is not fair in grading
*) Instructor does not tell students what is the content/syllabus of the test
*) Talks too fast,slow, accent is hard to follow