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Cruel Student Comments: Seven Ways to Soothe the Sting

Reading students’ comments on official end-of-term evaluations—or worse, online at sites like RateMyProfessors.com—can be depressing, often even demoralizing. So it’s understandable that some faculty look only at the quantitative ratings; others skim the written section; and many others have vowed to never again read the public online comments. It’s simply too painful.

How else might you respond? Here are seven suggestions for soothing the sting from even the most hurtful student comments:

Isis Artze-Vega EdD December 8, 2014

Active Listening: Seven Ways to Help Students Listen, Not Just Hear

The title of Nadine Dolby’s recent piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education makes a great point about teaching that often goes unspoken: “There’s no learning when nobody’s listening.” It seems to me that most of us take this for granted. How many of us take steps to ensure our students are not only hearing the words uttered during our classes, but actually listening to them. Should we? And what might this entail?

Isis Artze-Vega EdD October 1, 2012

A FREE PUBLICATION FROM THE CREATORS OF THE TEACHING PROFESSOR

Isis Artze-Vega EdD

Cruel Student Comments: Seven Ways to Soothe the Sting

Active Listening: Seven Ways to Help Students Listen, Not Just Hear

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