tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post115293133515034230..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: SuspensionBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1153141123495919472006-07-17T05:58:00.000-07:002006-07-17T05:58:00.000-07:00Diana may be right -- perhaps the best thing you c...Diana may be right -- perhaps the best thing you can do for this student is to recommend some time to mature.<BR/><BR/>Although teaching faculty don't do advising, I've had my share of informal advisees.... and more than one in trouble. You may be the only person who cares about her academic life . <BR/><BR/>If you can get her to talk to you, it may help to have the following kinds of information:<BR/><BR/>You can learn a lot from finding out about her class attendance...<BR/><BR/>was her class attendance good? if not then....<BR/>-- is she depressed or has she had a mental illness? Often students will fail to perform because they are depressed and thus don't go to class...<BR/><BR/>-- if she has a learning disability, or the indications of them..<BR/><BR/>-- if there was a family problem that either made it difficult to concentrate or that would keep her out of class... or, did her economic circumstances keep her from regular class attendance?<BR/><BR/> if her attendance was good (and, of course define "good" for her)<BR/>-- if she has a problem with preparation... at what point does she fail classes? Does she pass classes with a paper requirement and fail if she has to take an exam etc.. <BR/><BR/>Overall, someone whose academic performance is bad enough to be suspended generally forms a pattern. Your job is more or less to figure out the pattern and then have her demonstrate actions taken to reverse that pattern.Inside the Philosophy Factoryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12255753259090709877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-1153084576807523232006-07-16T14:16:00.000-07:002006-07-16T14:16:00.000-07:00Oh, gosh - this brings back memories. I think I w...Oh, gosh - this brings back memories. I think I was this girl when I was in college. I'd done well in high school, I loved to read and to learn, but my emotional state at 18 (ok, and 19 and 20, too, and let's not talk about 35 either) was so fragile that I simply was not ready for the impersonal environment of college. If I knew then what I know now about myself, I'd have taken a few years off and grown up a bit. When I took two classes to complete my degree when I was a married, fulltime employee and 28 years old, I got stellar grades. Just a whole 'nother world. Plus, I was paying for those classes myself, which opens up another topic for consideration.<BR/><BR/>I'm probably not being too helpful here, am I? I'm just asking myself whether someone like this really should be in college at all, at least right now.<BR/><BR/>Just my .02.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com