{"id":1208,"date":"2019-06-02T20:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2019-06-27T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T07:50:49","slug":"rate-my-professors_part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/rate-my-professors_part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rate my professors_Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Calvin: “Here\u2019s the latest poll on your performance as dad. Your approval rating is pretty low, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dad: “That\u2019s because<\/span> there\u2019s not necessarily any connection between what\u2019s good and what\u2019s popular<\/span><\/strong>. I do what\u2019s right, not what gets approval.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

Calvin: “You\u2019ll never keep the job with that attitude.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dad: “If someone else offers to do it, let me know.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\u2013Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Watterson, February 13, 1994<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As an instructor, I find myself always in a dilemma: to teach my students the right thing right or to teach my students what are considered as right depending on situation.\u00a0 Right will be right no matter the situation is.\u00a0 That should be the case.\u00a0 But the reality is not like that.\u00a0 We deal with lots of “grey” matter.<\/span><\/p>\n

But when it comes to teaching, students’ ratin<\/a>g do not related to how effective one’s teaching.\u00a0 So, one of my seniors once said “Dijah, jangan fikir sangat kalau dapat komen teruk dari pelajar ni.\u00a0 Diorang ni kalau tak suka kita, dia komen la macam-macam.\u00a0 Cuba Dijah belanja dia makan-makan, ajak lepak sama-sama, diorang tak kasi la komen teruk macam ni [<\/em>Translated: Dijah, don’t think too much about it if you got such comments from students.\u00a0 If they dislike you, they would give bad comments.\u00a0 If you treat them, hang out together, they won’t give such comments”]”.\u00a0 That becomes my stance until now about UTM ePPP.<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A study<\/a> has shown that even though those teachers\/instructors who got the highest rating are perceived as the one who contribute the most to learning, but those who got lower rating are the one who are most effective in their teaching.\u00a0 It is ironic, isn’t it?\u00a0 Which is which<\/a>? Do you want those so really good in teaching or those who perceived as “influencer” in one’s learning experience?<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, it would be better if we can have teachers\/instructors who are excellent in teaching and at the same time contribute the most to learning.\u00a0 It is not impossible but it takes time and lots of efforts for the teachers’ parts to consciously improve their teaching (this could be time consuming).\u00a0 If teachers are bogged down with so many roles and responsibilities, teaching would lose its importance.\u00a0 \u00a0It can be seen in academia where teaching is not a core business of some instructors who focus more on research and publication, rather than teaching (unless these people focus on doing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning or SOTL).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, at the end of the day, it is all back to the question of why do we choose this profession i.e. teaching.\u00a0 One thing for sure, teaching won’t make us billionaires but many teachers have played their parts to nurture billionaires.\u00a0 Indeed.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Calvin: “Here\u2019s the latest poll on your performance as dad. Your approval rating is pretty low, I\u2019m afraid.\u201d Dad: “That\u2019s because there\u2019s not necessarily any connection between what\u2019s good and what\u2019s popular. I do what\u2019s right, not what gets approval.\u201d Calvin: “You\u2019ll never keep the job with that attitude.\u201d Dad: “If someone else offers to … Continue reading Rate my professors_Part 2<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":851,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-rambling","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/851"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1962,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions\/1962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hadijahjaffri\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}