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are they chatting about the material? ask them straight out 'are you all chatting about the material?' and tell the class, that the best way is to ask me (the teacher) and interrupt to get clarification or more non-confrontationally - if you all are chatting about the material, it's best to interrupt me immediately, some of this material is complex... .....you need a number of stock phrases ranging from nice to B****y and the balls to use them (the first few times you'll be shaking) excuse me may i have your attention please? i've told you nicely, now i'm telling you not so nicely, pllleease (eyes on them) pause for effect pay attention dont chat during class we're having a class so can you stop talking (again body language will send this one through) i see we have yet another interruption in class, while looking at them see me after class about your needless chatting during my class get the drift here.... firmness and consistent application of expectations changes behavior at least you're not a substitute teacher in the inner city seek out the advice of a dynamic teacher
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are they talking on the phone? texting? or looking up info? having been an educator for 20 years and now returning for another degree, i think we need more information before we respond correctly to your problem are you a teacher THAT DEMANDS ALL EYES ARE ON YOU THROUGHOUT THE CLASS? scary, but some teachers are like that... when you say they are disruptive - do you mean to you or otehr studetns? you need a variety of tools as a teacher - while we all like to 'jump out of our b**** bag' and call the guy out' won't we look like the a** if he said that he was just looking up the references you just gave...... the response of just stop talking and start looking at the student with phone which will current peer pressure is a good one
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I am going to offer a totally different response here. (preface --- I am not faulting the students or you or fellow posters) Yes, you're going to be slammed on the evaluations, but you can easily take it in stride as a learning experience - so don't worry about that. Because of your inexperience, you read this group wrong from Day 1 and didn't have the skill sets as an teacher to pivot expectations and adapt your teaching style early on. This is normal from an inexperienced teacher and you just got unlucky getting this group. I would have gone lenient with this group from Day 1 ......and I find ALL of my current grad school peers (young enough to be my kids) will take many years before (if) they can teach well and connect with their students teaching is what most phds do, but but most fresh (age 22 with 3 months student teaching experience) bach. education degree holders can teach better than TAs....if you're a TA with a career of teaching in front of you, you have to realize you have a steep learning curve ahead of you And yes I have over 20 years experience teaching in corporate, college and grade school and am returning to grad school for another degree.....
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I have heard of a few incidences in which individuals were admitted straight from the wait list by all were in undergraduate programs. In almost all these cases they were compelling cases with an advocate to push for them inside the university usually at the highest levels. For example, back in the day Bryn Mawr waitlisted a top Asian young lady misreading her application and deeming her not forthright ("competitive") enough. Her advocate countered that as a practicing Buddhist she was egoless even in the face of her many accomplishments. She was vaulted out of the bottom of the waitlist and offered admission. At the PhD level and in today's climate, you would need a truly compelling reason and discrete advocate.
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how to choose your dissertation topic? how to make the decision!
mdiv2014 replied to phdbound710's topic in Research
go to where the data can be the easiest to find trust me on this on -
MIT Mistakenly Tells Some Applicants They’ve Been Admitted
mdiv2014 replied to med latte's topic in Waiting it Out
why the thumbs down? i've heard 'quiet settlements' (ie admissions the next year with aid) for many other similar blunders - not to mention other back room deals....if you think people aren't slipped onto the admitted list unbeknownst to the adcom, you're seriously mistaken while mit would laugh off the initial law suit, a lawyer with enough pr pull and physician statements about the trauma experienced at the hands of ---- yes, an email would make easy work of this this is easy work for a savvy pain in the a** lawyer who is tapped into the inner workings of mit ....... easy work -
MIT Mistakenly Tells Some Applicants They’ve Been Admitted
mdiv2014 replied to med latte's topic in Waiting it Out
savvy lawyer would file class action suit immediately wait till next year, they'll all be admitted or transferred in quietly with handsome aid package -
greater fool theory......1637 tulip mania.....
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How Are You Coping With The Torture Of Waiting???
mdiv2014 replied to PsycD's topic in Waiting it Out
i'm rehearsing my best sally field imitation you like me , you really like me!!!! over and over again http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRmzNGZ_8Xg -
Asked to do Work for Someone Else's Dissertation
mdiv2014 replied to LadyJ's topic in Coursework, Advising, and Exams
difficult to tell what the original poster really means, but here's a perspective sharing 'knowledge' saves time yes, the process of discovering knowledge on our own is superior to having it handed to us but perhaps this student is in a bind, has personal issues, is overloaded and needs a hand when you get to be a professor and an honest hardworking student is in a pickle, what do you do? tell them they'll fail unless they find the answers themselves or do you cough and point at a certain book and ask them if they tried reading chapter 18 of that one? -
ugh! now i'm beginning to worry an adcom has flow chart designed for 20 somethings and applicants much older will be seen through the application lens for those much younger. in the link, the resume was considered superfluous - seriously? Mine was 4 pages with almost 1 page of pubs.....oh god!
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How Are You Coping With The Torture Of Waiting???
mdiv2014 replied to PsycD's topic in Waiting it Out
remote viewing the conclave of the adcom room projecting a halo around my application implanting a 'Dahm, this applicant is good' thought into the heads of the adcom -
I also vote DONT TELL. Maybe you were a better fit to Yale. Maybe your application POI wont match well to Harvard. But this makes me revisit my thoughts on whether I should have inferred I would be a cash paying student and thus provide maximum revenue? Nah, I can see discussions within the conclaves of the adcom becoming political but not financial..... I would hope they would accept us on our individual merits - but then again i can be a naive idealist......
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With your clarifications, it is now obvious to me that what you ultimately seek (a location for a presumably western born convert to Islam or western Muslim to be ordained to minister as a Muslim Sheikh / Syed / Mulla / Chaplin AS WELL AS a liberal arts university that offers terminal degree in religion/DMin) does not exist. Hartford seems to be an either or. A western born convert to Islam that I know went to Syria (before the current conflict) to get a recognizable certificate equivalent to ordination in Islam. They surprisingly did not have a native level reading ability in Arabic necessary to interpret the Quran from its original Arabic. Maybe the Muslim Council in Great Britain can advice you further on this, but I suspect universities in the UK are either or as well. If you are Shi'a, your quest would inevitably lead you to Qom and Najaf.
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Offering a dmin is a monumental institutional committment. Hds has not released any press in favor of this.
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a week after i submitted my application, the hit count on one of my book sites (listed on my cv) spiked from normal 20 hits a day to over 200 and stayed there for 4 days. but now that the adcom has my packet the hit count is normal and steady i wonder if a student reader or an ad dept reviewer made it go viral??????? you think?
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consult with a faculty member who is not on the adcom because they have an expertise in the applicant's experience / field of study? call references for more information? (and why?) look up publications the applicant has listed? do a google/facebook/linked in/you tube search on the applicant? (if so, what are they looking for that is positive?)
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from my perspective, your background does not match your goals you might consider a year at the american university of cairo for arabic immersion (they have an established and recognized course for this used by us state dept) with your background you could even take a year to teach english in the middle east
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academia usually doesn't understand the military, its culture or veterans and the perspective/experiences of veteran applicants need clarification at times and they wont understand your unique skill sets (unless you explain them in terms they can understand) the sociology of the military is fascinating, similar to other cultures and relevant with more veterans filtering back into american society talk intelligently and with curiosity about say - women in the military (too include the tail hook scandal) , leading a diverse group (?), cultures within elite military organizations, etc i take it you are a reserve officer with some active duty? did you have a major staff job? a command? attend staff school? any elite schools (ranger, etc.)? will one of your recommendations come from service people who are also rooted in academia? explain any writing you did as a staff officer. share your strategic thinking ability if you have some time between now and the application, get published in professional military journals (there is an accepted way to list on your resume that you submitted articles for publication but they were rejected or are under consideration) your application can merit great attention if you can groom and package yourself
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Honestly you have not given us enough context to say. And we have no idea what your writing voice sounds like.
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I wish there were a 7 week sleeping pill to put my life in suspended animation...... Due to my extreme uniqueness and obvious(?!) fit to HDS (i am a long-time alum active in harvard alumni assoc and have a link to a certain hds professor....please tell me that counts for something), I am only applying to HDS. I'll either be selected in the first round or not at all. The ad com will either 'get me' or not. I've played out who is a voting member this year, who is a non-voting member, how many student and alum readers are there and what their influence is. Reminds me of how a harvard prof hired a private detective to find out WHO was on the tenure com. and what the criteria was.....his findings made for entertaining reading back in the day but now i understand his turmoil. I have not told friends - as i did not have a reply to the possible "What? You weren't accepted this time? Why?" friends, i need to stop obsessing and get on with my life. One book is published, two others are 'close'. I have travels ahead and legitimate business concerns but at least once a day i reopen my application and ponder. i have deleted it and saved it from the trash can. please tell me to permanently delete it. Thanks for hearing my vents. I guess I'm looking for the ultra-secret HDS MDiv admissions rubric. Does anybody have a copy?