I met with a couple of students today--and the last of my appointments ended up lasting more than two hours. I was meeting with a student who is by far the best and brightest in the 101 class (though her essay was a bit of a wreck--even on a sentence level, which is unusual for her), and we just got talking ... and the talk ended up getting into far more personal, in-depth levels than I would have anticipated. It was lovely.
I really do enjoy meeting with students in that way; I'd be happy to mentor far more hours than I do, if I had enough willing student participants. I like getting to know them as human beings; I like being able to offer my insights, given my age and level of education and career. I like helping, human being to human being.
I don't know quite what else to say about it. I'm replete at the moment.
Earlier I had a slightly glitchier moment with a student: somehow I didn't email her essay to her, but she also didn't alert me to the problem, so she showed up for conference unprepared, which was annoying--until I realized it was partly my error. In any event, I'm going to meet with her tomorrow--and I need to get home ASAP to email her essay to her now, so she has it in plenty of time.
I didn't get any of that P&B stuff done ... yet. I did get more of the Nature in Lit stuff graded, which felt good.
And tomorrow is ... what's tomorrow? Oh, right: it's yet another day. Seems like there are a lot of those (which is a wonderful thing in itself: more days are better than fewer).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment