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Great attitude. 'I tend to see "cheating" as a symptom that something is wrong in the system, in pedagogy.... As a teacher, my job is to help students learn,
by jdp23 16y ago
Great attitude. 'I tend to see "cheating" as a symptom that something is wrong in the system, in pedagogy.... As a teacher, my job is to help students learn, not create artificial barriers to learning in the name of equitable grading. Grading should be a strategy for making learning more satisfying by demonstrating accomplishment....
It is my job to satisfy the student, the paying customer, not the other way around. Perhaps cheating is a strategy that students bring to an artificial problem that I have created. Perhaps it is a symptom of my failure to teach.'
- Shanghai 16y agoAfter four years of being a student at a major state university, I can sadly say that I have never had a teacher with that attitude.
- alanfalcon 16y agoI guess I'm extremely fortunate; I had two: one in economics and one in accounting. I very nearly switched my major to economics or accounting because of them. I ended up with different teachers for next-level courses and realized it was the teachers and not the discipline that I found appealing.
- pmb 16y agoStudents are not customers. They are products.
- foobarbazoo 16y agoAnd here I thought students were people. /sarc