if you can't say anything nice...
i have a stomach full of bile this evening. seriously. all i want to do is just spit nastiness in the face of anyone and everyone, but, oh yes, particularly, at those against whom i have a grudge of any sort.
i could be all full of shit and call it Speaking Truth, but, let's be anti bullshit for a sec, that would be the means rather than the ends.
a bunch of minor nibbles built up to this. but the gitgo of the evening boils down to: I fucking fucking hate it when credit for a good idea is taken from me. not only does it suck, but there's so totally nothing you can do to claim your credit without looking like a petty douche.
mother fuck. best to get offline and go sleep. yes. yes.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Saturday, August 06, 2011
Catch 22
Deep in the throes of another Faux Patient testing cycle, and short on sleep, I find myself obsessed with the unfortunate fact that the students who most need the feedback are the ones least likely to get it.
There seem to be two main reasons for this:
a) They are the least likely to listen to it -
Either we give them feed back that they murmur politely at and don't absorb. Or they get defensive and the session gets embroiled in that action. Or we can tell they're not listening so we stop talking.
b) We tend to give comments in good-bad-good sandwiches - With a students who didn't do very well, there will usually be more bad things to say then good. But you run out of good, you generally also need to stop with the bad. Because otherwise they stop listening.
Deep in the throes of another Faux Patient testing cycle, and short on sleep, I find myself obsessed with the unfortunate fact that the students who most need the feedback are the ones least likely to get it.
There seem to be two main reasons for this:
a) They are the least likely to listen to it -
Either we give them feed back that they murmur politely at and don't absorb. Or they get defensive and the session gets embroiled in that action. Or we can tell they're not listening so we stop talking.
b) We tend to give comments in good-bad-good sandwiches - With a students who didn't do very well, there will usually be more bad things to say then good. But you run out of good, you generally also need to stop with the bad. Because otherwise they stop listening.
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