So this semester is going to be the first time I've ever attended summer school! Well, I'll be attending as the instructor and not as a student, but you can believe the pressure is still there.
I feel like summer session classes are so rushed and I guess that is helpful for the student, but want can really be learned in a month that it takes others 15 weeks to understand fully. I have always heard that people take summer session classes to either get ahead in coursework, to repeat classes without having to suffer through an entire semester, or to just get a requirement out of the way. No matter which reason, I can't help wondering if these students really want to master/learn the subject I teach in earnest or if this is a feeble attempt to get a subject they must take but seldom enjoy out of the way. I can't shake the feeling that they may not even engage with what I am teaching them each day (thinking face). And yet, I will still try my hardest to make it an interesting and enlightening month of class (partially for them but mostly for me...students often forget professors give up a portion of their summer too when teaching summer classes).
I have always had mixed feelings about summer session classes, but I am optimistic that my students will not disappoint me
...and if they do, I can simply remind myself that IT IS SUMMER SCHOOL AFTER ALL!
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