Persistent Professor

Teaching (I hope), Venting a little, Grading a lot. I take my job seriously, and I take my students seriously, but I don’t take Twitter seriously.

[No Tenure No Peace @lookatthescore]

I literally had to explain today that having someone else do your paper is in fact, cheating.

[No Tenure No Peace @lookatthescore]

1. Instructions verbally
2. Paper handout with instructions
3. Posted on Canvas
4. Examples noted in class for reference in working on project
5. Reading assigned in book
6. Reading discussed
7. Any questions? [none]

3 days later …

“How do we this? I have no idea.”

[𝙳𝚛 𝙱𝚒𝚝𝚝𝚎𝚛 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚏𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚛 🇺🇦 @AcerbicAcademic]

No, writing a paper with AI is not the same as using a calculator.

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

Does preoccupation with work at all hours of the day and night constitute “intrusive thoughts”? #askingforme

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

@AcerbicAcademic My second guess had all five letters in the wrong spots. 😂😉

[Suspiciously Nice Prof @steph_teasley]

Anybody have jobs where I just read all day?

Teaching is so talkie.

[Suspiciously Nice Prof @steph_teasley]

It's just a job.
It's just a job.
It's just a job.
I am not my students' grades.
I am not my students' grades.
I am not my students' grades.
Chocolate.
Chocolate.
Chocolate.

[Suspiciously Nice Prof @steph_teasley]

I help, help, help struggling students in ENG 1. A lot of rewrites and regrades and talks.

And a later prof will ask "How did she pass your class? She's failed all my assignments."

And I end up gloomily wondering if helping can hurt.

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

I wish Canvas Inbox had an auto-reply feature…

[Melissa Perreault 🇨🇦 @Dr_Perreault]

Students, please stop calling me "hey", "hi there", "Mrs or Ms", "yo". I just received another. It's Dr or Professor unless I say otherwise. Thanks.

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

@matt_ollis Of course not. But try using that rationale when students complain that we email them on non-school days. 😂

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

Dear Student ~ I know you are probably just seeing your official grade today. But it is December 22. Today is not the day to be emailing your instructor about it. Any day for the remainder of 2023 is not the day.

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

If you’re not simultaneously watching student video presentations and shopping online for holiday presents in the middle of December, are you even a professor?

[Suspiciously Nice Prof @steph_teasley]

Getting a few "don't judge the work, judge the learning" responses, and I'm wondering if there's a secret brain wave machine I don't know about.

"No essays turned in, but the brain is strong with this one."

[No Tenure No Peace @lookatthescore]

Dude with 20 absences emailed today to let me know he wouldn’t make class. I thought he’d already dropped the class.

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

I keep checking in and hoping Twitter will be back…

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

Nothing prompts a student to solve a problem themselves as quickly as an invitation to meet with me so I can help them with it.

[Associate Deans @ass_deans]

Just because it’s a holiday weekend doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be responding to student emails! They have questions about the class they missed and the assignment they didn’t do!

[Persistent Professor @persistentprof]

@peevedccprof @nmhwilson … in their office, during work hours… 😂😂😂