Thursday, March 19, 2009
THANK YOU TEDDY!!
as class began, and the professor revealed the class average for the midterm, i was a bit worried. i do remember handing in the midterm feeling a little uncertain about a couple of questions, but i guess hearing "69" from the professor really confirmed my destiny. turns out, i didn't do that bad. i usually shoot for A's but i don't mind being complacent just this one time. i don't think the material was that difficult more so than the format of the exam. and so when the professor proposed that as long as 100% of the class agrees to a reasonable request in attempt to adjust our grade/ editing the format of the next exam, i'm thinking, "what is the professor about to get himself into?" i know for a fact, the multiple multiple choice was going out the window; it was a smart way of asking, almost, 50 different questions, condensed into, what appears to be only 8 questions. i would say, out of the terms under "how people handle conflict" i was more of a mix between avoidance and accommodation. i wont neglect to mention that i was a bit pissimistic, thinking it was going to be mission impossible to find a request that EVERYONE were better off. i was wrong! in fact, we acheived quite a bagain. i think we couldn't have had a better leader who identified with our request and pretty much found a common denominator we all desired. from this point on, i was all about accommodating others request because again, i didn't do bad so i kinda felt bad for those who felt discouraged in acheiveing a desirable grade. i'm completely content with the outcome and don't think it couldve happend any better. THANX TEDDY!! HAHAA
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You're a good man! :))
ReplyDeleteI think that if you got a grade that satisfies you, you have one of two options:
1. support a friend in his struggle or,
2. sit down and be quiet.
Your decision was good because everyone else was shouting their lungs out and it was very noisy. So I think that everyone who did well on the test should be passive and let the rest of us yell - this way we have a little less yelling:)
Good job on the test!
I must completely agree with with what Shay said. The most responsible course of action you could have taken in this situation was to be passive and accommodating. With a class average of 69 there must have been a fair amount of people who did poorer than they expected and may feel their overall average to be in jeopardy. By remaining quiet and waiting for the results you allowed those who had real needs to be heard in the chaos we called a discussion.
ReplyDeleteI definitely agree with your initial concern about getting the whole class to agree. i almost thought it was a trick activity, that the Prof KNEW we wouldn't be able to achieve. However, throughout the activity, i realized that any student who disagreed right at the end, and therefore would cost the WHOLE class our whole "exam package" would have to deal with some 80 very angry students, haha.
ReplyDeleteI was actually very worried about people like you, who weren't THAT bothered about what they got, or even more so, about those who got A's, and therefore didnt care about the activity.It was really good to see those people either get into it, and try to win it for the class, or just sit back and keep quiet.
You are definitely a better person than I. I did pretty well on the test too but I was still interested in making the format for the next test something that I could live with, as well as everyone else. There were some people whom I felt were too dominant and wouldnt let others voice their own opinion. Teddy did do a great job of taking charge when no one else would. It's hard to step up in front of such a big class.
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