Today we are doing teacher/course evals and I should not have been surprised that in the 8h class, when I asked for a volunteer to take the evals to the office after everyone was done, 6 hands went up (out of 15 students).
9h? None... I waited as many long moments as I could stand and said again, "Could I please have a volunteer to take the evals to the office?" Again nothing. I tried to make light of it; slight good-natured laugh and, "No volunteers? Not even one?!" Finally the grad student raised his hand reluctantly. When I asked for volunteers to help pass out all the forms it was much the same so I just basically pointed to some people to draft them into it.
It will never cease to amaze me, I suppose, how an entire class can have the same mentality. This probably doesn't seem so strange given that it's the end of the semester, of course they've had time to gel into a real unit, but this stuff is almost always pretty obvious within the first couple of weeks of the semester...
Again my more compassionate side is tempering my befuddlement by remembering that this class is not bad-natured really; with them it's more shyness and self-consciousness than anything else. I was surprised that a couple of the stand-outs didn't even look like they were pondering putting their hand up tho. With the shy-er ones in there I wasn't surprised at all...
In the 10h, mark my words - I'll have the same situation as in the 8h: all but about 3 people will put their hands up.
Wacky students.
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