Why teachers have nervous breakdowns

[cornerofmadness]

It's painfully obvious. First I get waylaid by some students. They're bored. They just had all this chem stuff in high school. Do they have to come? No, you're an adult. Do what you want so long as the homework is done. I'm moving too slow for them. Then the boss catchs me and tells me I'm slightly behind, pick up the pace. So we do protein and DNA for 45 minutes. One student (one of the older one) complains loudly she has a problem with me because I'm going too fast (this is the one I've been holding hands with since day one). We go on break. One student hunts me down to tell me that even though I ASKED if it was going to fast and everyone said no, half the class (you guessed it the older ones) are all crying it's too fast. So I repeat the WHOLE damn lecture because half of them just don't get it.

Sigh. The real problem is my class is divided in half, half 18-21, half 45-60 years of age. There's no way of easily balancing (if at all) the speed of lecture and info. Going in tomorrow onmy day off to talk the boss (whom I found out my class is packed because they don't like him because he's too fast) in order to figure out a way to deal with this. Of course, once we get to skin I think this will resolve.

Also found out that despite tellnig me they were fine with the histology slides last week, 50% couldn't figure out how to evenuse the scopes today. a third haven't looked at the dvd or cd or have and couldn't figure out that they had to find the titles of the lectures and NOT go by the order of info on the cd. I mean should I tell them to go find the histo lecture and not just click on the first heading which is something totally different? And when I tell them to get their drinks OUT of the lab I'm ignored (they did NOT ignore the boss when he popped in and yelled) Let's see how many of them go to the dean and bitch.

Sigh.

and on a totally different note here's this from penguin boy. WHO is this woman? And damn, if she's coming over couldn't she bring me china white instead of Mexican tar?

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Comments

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

Ok the picture won't open for me but it says at the bottom of my screen while it vainly attempts to do so that its Carrie from Sex and the City (Sarah Jessica Parker). Hope that helps.


I can understand your frustation. That sounds horrible. I remember one semester I was in a British history class (well two of them) with this Asian girl and she couldn't understand why religion was such an important topic in these two classes. Sometimes people just don't get it no matter how hard you try.

I'd be more annoyed with the fact that you asked if you were going to fast and they didn't say anything until the break.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the picture cuts in and out. I THOUGHT it was Sarah Jessica Parker...You know I could do better than that. Ah well she comes bearing heroin so who am I to complain.

NO student I've ever seen will tell a prof they're going too fast. They'll always talk behind their backs.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I thought it was but since I don't get HBO.

Thanks. I think once we get out of chemistry and into the body systems where they can see HOW it relates to nursing we'll be okay (if they can't then they're in trouble)

[aaronlisa.livejournal.com]

It's bad because I am guilty of talking behind prof's backs. But if I really don't understand something I have gone to a prof before and asked.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

So what do you teach exactly? Is it nursing, or part of a nursing curriculum?

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

blech I feel for you with the teaching thing. I can't even imagine how you'd work that out. Sounds like maybe the ones who think you're going too fast need to do some backup reading/homework to get up to speed a bit.

Hope it works out for you. I'm sure it will.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

So have I but we know that students are afraid of a) admitting they didn't get it b) afraid the prof will be mad and take it out on them etc so we DO provide an anonymous form that they can critiqtue me but so far no one's doing it

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

We'll see what the boss says today. They DO need to do more homework sadly the book we use SUCKS for this section. It expects them to know it already

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

General anatomy and physiology. Just starting this. (I was a doctor until three years ago). It IS part of the nursing curriculum. They must get past me to get into the program.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

They must get past me to get into the program.

You go! I wouldn't want a nurse who didn't pass basic A&P.


Not a doctor anymore?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Not a doctor any more. well I am I just don't practice. A patient kicked me and severely damaged a nerve in my hand which as a podiatrist is a career ender. I have nothing but pins and needles in my first three fingers and pain.

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Wow, I am really sorry to hear that. I suppose it also means not pursuing a more research-oriented rather than practice-oriented medical career?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Yep. Podiatrists like eye doctors and dentists go to their own med schools separate from MD's. So I can't just switch into say psychiatry or something. I was going to go into forensics after the injury but since my hand is so badly damaged I don't have the accuracy required.

Best part Wisconsin (where I was injured) says a hand's only worth 10% of the body which means a) no one will sue for that piddly sum and b) it's not even worth retraining me for so all three years of grad school come back to me to pay

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Um... did your sentence get cut off there?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

no just worded it badly. SHould have been I have to pay for all three years of retraining grad school because workmen's comp. doesn't have to pay because a hand injury isn't deemed serious

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Sounds like what you need is a good lawyer. "Serious" is a word with multiple legal meanings, and the loss of an entire career strikes me as serious. A case could be made.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Tried every workman's comp lawyer in madison. No one will touch it. that 10% means they earn a fee of less than 8000 $,