quicksilver-ink:

Really kind of wishing I had the guts to add some discussion to my teaching statement of how I always get student eval complaints about how I “don’t like” questions even though I’m constantly soliciting them in class unless I repeatedly tell my students that I sometimes forget to smile when I’m thinking hard about things, especially tricky questions. ..probably the year I’m up for tenure and people up the food chain are going to be reading my file is not the year to start unpacking the patriarchy in said file.

(because reblogy-to-reply is broken:)

@wandererriha said:

When I say I don’t like a question, I mean the question was worded strangely, or the grammar was such that it was incomprehensible. What most students mean is “it’s too hard” or “I don’t understand because I didn’t study”. :P Hang in there. <3



This isn’t about the questions I ask them on homework and exams, though! I mean that students report (when evaluating my teaching at the end of the semester) that I don’t like them asking me questions if I haven’t spent the while semester reminding them that if I’m thinking hard about something they asked me, I might forget to smile for a minute or two.

This isn’t about students going “whaaa the class is hard”, this is about how women have to smile and be nicey-nice all the time. :/