There were four distinct areas of my class with which I was concerned;
- Did they write it on the bus coming to class?
(the quality of my students' writing on their assignments)
- What are they really thinking about the
class? (whether I was getting adequate feedback about the class)
- When did they give it to me, and where
did I put it? (my management of
the volume of material for the class)
- And several problems resulting from time and place constraints--
- Sorry, time's up!
- Pack it in--you
don't have much time, and you won't see them again for a while.
- Betty writes
great papers. Why doesn't she talk more in class?
- Sorry, I work then. How about
midnight after I get off work?
- Sometimes grandmothers
really do die.