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PRINCIPLES OF TEACHING 0. | First of all, do no harm. Primum est non nocere. |
1. | Read the text, it is more than the students do. |
2. | It is important to appear to care. |
3. | It is impossible to underestimate a student. |
4. | It they don't do it correctly the first time, they never will. |
5. | Grades are determined in the first three weeks of the semester, the rest of time is to convince the students that is what they deserve. |
6. | Only those students who do not need help will ask for it. Those who do need help will not ask. |
7. | Never care more about a student's grade than the student does. |
8. | Some students are destined to ask "Would you like fries with that?" It is your responsibility to help them find their destiny. |
9. | The product of the amount of time and effort put in by the advisor and the student is a constant. |
10. | All grading opportunities in a given course are optional. |
11. | Do not let a student's procrastination become your crisis. |
12. | Your most important priority is to all those people in the future that the student will interact with professionally. |
13. | Keep in mind: | Ecclesiastes 1:13 |
Ecclesiastes 12:12 2 Timothy 2:15 Daniel 5:25. 14. | Students are never as ignorant about course policies and requirements as they try to make you believe. |
15. | To acquiesce to a student's request for an exception is generally not in his or her best interest. |
16. | Never complain about being overworked when two committee meetings are scheduled for the same time. You can use each one as an excuse to skip both! |
17. | If a student spent as much time studying as he or she does complaining and begging after earning a poor grade, there would be nothing to complain about! |
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