Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Apologizing for Others

The title's not strictly true, but I feel as if I should apologize for the poor teaching by one of our adjuncts.  We (a colleague and I) worked with him over the semester once the student complaints started snowballing.  I put off thinking about it but the first (only?) parental complaint came in, going to the Provost after me.

I want all of our classes to be at least good if not excellent.  This is the third Fall semester in a row where that has not been true.

I could always have spent more time working with the instructor.  That shouldn't be the gauge of my success or failure;  it's not effort that counts here.

Hard to shed the feeling of guilt.

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