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posted by [identity profile] texanfan.livejournal.com at 04:47pm on 26/11/2008
I have several friends who are teachers and they all seem to have the common problem of students being unable to read instructions. Or perhaps it's merely following instructions that is the problem.

Fargo is a very interesting choice. It's such a delicious mixed bag on that front.
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Instructions? We don't need no stinkin' instructions!

posted by [identity profile] revdorothyl.livejournal.com at 02:03am on 27/11/2008
For my students, it seems to be both 'reading' and 'following' that are problems, since I not only wrote out the paper instructions eplicitly in the syllabus, but also hammered home verbally at every opportunity (and in writing, whenever I graded one of their small assignments) that I want them to PROVE that they know what they're talking about by citing the actual book/chapter/verse(s) for anything in the Bible that they choose to discuss.

Yes, the 'Fargo' paper came as a pleasant surprise to me, since the student only chose the topic the day before it was due (the paper topic was supposed to be selected and submitted for my approval two weeks earlier). I was expecting something pretty shoddy, but this student (who only perks up in class when I mention music or entertainment, since he has his own band like so many of my Nashville students) actually shocked me in a good way, by demonstrating honest-to-goodness thought and biblical research. Who knew?
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