Do You Have to Be Entertaining to Be Popular?
The following link will prove that if you scare enough students over enough years, you will wind up with your picture on the Internet: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-09-10/favorite-professors-richmonds-joe-hoyle ** I think one of the most detrimental myths of teaching is that a person has to be funny or easy or entertaining to be popular with students. I think this idea has ruined a lot of good teachers. I cannot even estimate how many teachers have told me over the past 42 years �if I try to hold the line and make the students work, they will dislike me and kill me on the student evaluations. Students only want teachers who make them laugh and give them A�s.� Students only want teachers who make them laugh and give them A�s. If that line is true, the future of education is truly bleak. Often, I believe that line is merely a scapegoat � not always, but often. What I think those folks are really saying is �whether it is true or not, the students believe that I am giving them ...