Student Guide Corner

I finished my last class of the semester about 18 hours ago.   It was my 45th year in the classroom.   I believe that I taught most of my students a lot of accounting.   I would hope, though, that I helped them see more about life than just my subject matter.   Maybe I am wrong but I think 50 years ago college teachers were interested in more than the pure conveyance of subject matter.   As I look at the weirdness of the current presidential race, I wonder whether we have come to focus too exclusively on subject matter. So, I got up this Saturday morning and sent a final message to my students.   Not sure if it will make them any different but, maybe, in a few cases, they will think about their future lives a bit differently. To:   My Accounting Students From:   JH It's been a great semester (despite all the snow).   I have pushed you hard and you have responded wonderfully well.   No one threw a chair at me and I always consider th...

On Friday morning, April 8, 2016, I will be speaking at the Ohio region meeting of the American Accounting Association on the topic of �Perspectives of High-Quality Teaching.�   If you are in the Cleveland area, I hope you will show up.  I would love to meet you and chat about teaching.   Here�s the URL. http://aaahq.org/meetings/2016/ohio-midyear-meeting ** I am teaching three classes this semester�two Intermediate Accounting II classes and one Financial Accounting class.  I have 78 students.   I realize that some of you teach hundreds but, for me, 78 is a fairly large number.  That provides some challenges when trying to get each student to do outstanding work. I always give three tests every semester and a final exam.   I believe that gives the students a chance to show me what they have really learned.   After the first two tests, I usually have a good group (50-60 percent) who are doing well and have an excellent chan...