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treeskinI graded lab ID quizzes for Donna today, and just have to bitch about some of the consistently missed answers. This'll mean much more to my plant geek friends. The rest of you, well, just google for pics of the varieties, you'll get the idea.
Anyway...venting.....
Because so many of the class have been mixing up the same flowers through the entire semester, Donna put most of the troublesome ones on the last quiz at the same time. They were: french marigold, calendula, garden mum, zinnia.
Now, would those who are even remotely familiar with these flowers tell me if I'm nuts? Because I just can't see how people can NOT distinguish between them. They look different, have very different odors, wildly different foliage and stems.....I'm just confused as to how half the damn class got all four mixed up. Not only that, but some of the brighter pennies in class gotthose four mixed up with things not on the quiz, like goldenrod and asters. In what universe does calendula even remotely resemble the common native goldenrod??? Grrrr.
They never want me to teach herbaceous, that's all I can say. These kids think Donna's being soooo horrible to them, they don't want to see what it'd be like if I taught it. Because I'd teach it the way I was taught, and no being nice about it, no dumbing it down, no cutting out the difficult or rare things (so, 200 plants instead of 140).
I say again, grrrr.
Anyway...venting.....
Because so many of the class have been mixing up the same flowers through the entire semester, Donna put most of the troublesome ones on the last quiz at the same time. They were: french marigold, calendula, garden mum, zinnia.
Now, would those who are even remotely familiar with these flowers tell me if I'm nuts? Because I just can't see how people can NOT distinguish between them. They look different, have very different odors, wildly different foliage and stems.....I'm just confused as to how half the damn class got all four mixed up. Not only that, but some of the brighter pennies in class gotthose four mixed up with things not on the quiz, like goldenrod and asters. In what universe does calendula even remotely resemble the common native goldenrod??? Grrrr.
They never want me to teach herbaceous, that's all I can say. These kids think Donna's being soooo horrible to them, they don't want to see what it'd be like if I taught it. Because I'd teach it the way I was taught, and no being nice about it, no dumbing it down, no cutting out the difficult or rare things (so, 200 plants instead of 140).
I say again, grrrr.
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Dumbing Down
Date: 2005-10-21 02:54 pm (UTC)But what I got as an education in 12 years of parochial school, college preparatory curriculum would EASILY pass for a 4 year college in today's standards.
Too bad I can't shit a piece of paper authenticating same.
Might increase the odds of getting a better job.