The beginning of the semester is my least favorite time of the year. We spent so much time establishing and explaining, precious little time building and doing.
One of my former students, Dan Koabel, created an image explaining the evolutionary procession of student thinking about me (and maybe every teacher). It’s pretty hilarious and encapsulates the evolution of emotions (at least by my informal polling) that students experience with me.
Someday I may figure out how to fix this. Or maybe it doesn’t need to be fixed:
Another former student, Brian Wedig, believes the evolution of thinking is more like a flow chart and less like a circle. Please observe:
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