Student "edition" found at {csi dot journalspace dot com}.

Maybe I shouldn't have started this blog now, not with everything that's been going on.

Just two minor bits I would like to clear up before I go to my next topic, having to do with what I promised last time about the pros and cons of a student intentionally scoring low in his or her diagnostic test.

If the students lacks the self-confidence to push the limits of their capacity then they would do very well being in a smaller starred class after being misdiagnosed.

If, however, the students have an instinctive drive that pushes them to seek new and more challenging things, even if they don’t want to admit it to themselves, then they could get very bored very fast with the relatively slower pace of the class with similar comprehension levels.

But we as teachers couldn’t do anything about determining if their results are false or not.

For the first my two Engineering Computer Aided Drawing and Design classes, we couldn’t do anything for the first meeting because we were assigned the lab room instead of the computer room. At least I was able to tell the students that it would just be like their Graphics One class in that they are required to come up with individual design files during each three-hour session, and that they should bring diskettes.

I also met with the School of Engineering head’s Energy Conversion lab class, which for some reason he was averse to. Unfortunately, according to the acting dean I was already overloaded so I could take on the new class. He ended up passing it on to another co-teacher of mine in exchange for Engineering Materials Science, but not after I have already met the students for the first meeting.

On the third meeting of my Mathematical Methods One class, we finally gave them the new class distribution, which, we didn’t tell them, would be changed again less than a week from now when a new teacher would be hired. But for the meantime, we just arranged everyone into three sections.

Instead of arranging all the students by rating, this time we just split the students of the second of the four classes we first set, so it would be easier when we move them again.

Session 1135 was in the lowest section regardless of the number of teachers. Class dismissed.