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Nelson Eisman
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This is a tricky issue, because we want students to be responsible, meet deadlines and attend classes. However, all of the challenges our adult learners deal with, such as financial troubles, childcare, illness, car trouble, unanticipated work shifts, court dates, and military service can interrupt good intentions. What is our role as teacher? Should we take a hard line and not allow for work to be handed in late or tests to be taken later? How is taking a hard line consistent with the empathy we should have for our students? I struggle with this… >>>
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My wife teaches library science at the elementary school level and she had a graduate student visit her class to observe. The student told my wife that watching her interact with her class in her library was more valuable than all of her studies at the university. You cannot beat the real world as a classroom. So we are challenged to bring the real world into our teaching environment as well as we can through discussion of our collective experiences and demonstration exercises. I also take my students on field trips and try to bring in quest lecturers.