What It's Like Being a Physics Tutor: An Inside Look

[bcrowell]

Reading Jack21222's #1, I get two impressions: (1) Jack21222 was too nice to the student, and did too much of the work for her. (2) It's a no-win situation, because the student's Physics 1 teacher didn't have appropriate standards and let her slip through with a C that should have been an F. That kicks the can down the road to the Physics 2 teacher, whose responsibility is now to fail the student so that she can get the message and change to a more appropriate major (or get the message that college is not really for her, if this is evidence of a broader problem).

 

[Woopy]

Ben crowell I heard about you, everyone says you are gnarly as a teacher. I'm doing physics 221 at cypress though next semester