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Keep hearing all the focus on the students. What about us? We need to give ourselves grace to not do it right all the time. 

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Keep hearing all the focus on the students. What about us? We need to give ourselves grace to not do it right all the time. 

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We keep getting mad about being asked to do more with less, particularly time and money, but we're also asking the same of our students.

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"Being the change" is exhausting. I still want to be me and have my life away from it. How?

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Math is one of the few subjects where topics build on previous topics, and the gap gets wider the more math courses are taken (and forgotten)

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Do we really have an evidence-based understanding of what it means to be "prepared" for college math? Conversely, what are the deal breakers that prevent success - do we actually know?

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Do we really have an evidence-based understanding of what it means to be "prepared" for college math? Conversely, what are the deal breakers that prevent success - do we actually know?

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not all of us can control our curricula.

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Our complaints of students are a way of channeling frustrations

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Not interested in math

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I think it will be interesting to see how we will deal with trauma that the pandemic has and continues to burden students.

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I think it will be interesting to see how we will deal with trauma that the pandemic has and continues to burden students.

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Sometimes trying to get through the degree in a way that will leave them without the skills to succeed in the later parts of their plans.

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Students have been trained to work toward a number/letter grade rather than working toward understanding.

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Students have been trained to work toward a number/letter grade rather than working toward understanding.

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How do you change a negative attitude that lower division math courses are service courses? Particularly, addressing negative faculty attitudes towards teaching these classes?

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Cocos is the reason for what we are seeing in unpreparedness 

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Cocos is the reason for what we are seeing in unpreparedness 

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Here are some lessons I have learned about how to students learn well: ...

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They're apathetic to learning and lack curiousity

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They're more interested in saying what they think I want to hear than anything else.

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They don't trust me and my knowledge of learning and mathematics.

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R1 profs tend to teach to the top students

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R1 profs tend to teach to the top students

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Society coerces students to go to college and we are not helping them get a job.

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Motivated by credentials instead of learning

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Students who work hard and well are talking to me the most  while sstudents who tneed the  helpthe most do not ask for help

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Students who work hard and well are talking to me the most  while sstudents who tneed the  helpthe most do not ask for help

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Unprepared and don’t understand how to learn

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They say they want to make a change and pass but I almost never see that happen.

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They are not prepared to take the class

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I'm lazy too, so I totally understand their want to be lazy, so I empathize with them, then motivate them.

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I'm lazy too, so I totally understand their want to be lazy, so I empathize with them, then motivate them.

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We need to talk to the about goals as well as math.

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Colleges need to be student-ready, not expect students to be college-ready. 

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Colleges need to be student-ready, not expect students to be college-ready. 

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What do I do when I can't help them all and I don't have help?

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Honestly, I don't hear much about students from my colleagues at all. 

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Honestly, I don't hear much about students from my colleagues at all. 

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I only hear positive things about students from my colleagues because if I heard negative things, I wouldn't talk to those colleagues anymore.

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Largely positive (but this may be referring to the most advanced students)

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Largely positive (but this may be referring to the most advanced students)

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My students are thoughtful people who have important things to say!

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My students are thoughtful people who have important things to say!

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They come off as entitled (even if they aren't). They procrastinate and push off learning in favor of earning grades and getting past the class.

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Overcommitted and not prioritizing classes

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They don’t want to attend class

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Interesting wrong answers

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Everyone who comes in my class is capable of succeeding

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Their generation is more aware than mine was at their age

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Their generation is more aware than mine was at their age

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Looking for short cuts.

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Being let down by the institution

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They care more about grades than about learning

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They care more about grades than about learning

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They are my day job, just got to get through it.

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They are able to rise to meet high expectations. 

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They are able to rise to meet high expectations. 

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Some don't respect me and think I don't belong.

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Some don't respect me and think I don't belong.

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Is it possible to spend too much time and energy on DEI, and risk underserving students in mathematics?

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Is it possible to spend too much time and energy on DEI, and risk underserving students in mathematics?

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How do I let go of some of the negative interactions that I can't change so they don't leave me defeated?

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Covid is still having a big impact

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Lack math background

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They are unprepared.

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They just want an A (or to pass) and don't care about real learning at all. 

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They just want an A (or to pass) and don't care about real learning at all. 

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Anxious and in need of hand-holding

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I can bring a horse to water but I can't make it drink

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I can bring a horse to water but I can't make it drink

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Unprepared for college level math

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They will cheat on exams and disrupt the integrity of the class

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All of them want to excel and have big dreams.

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Unprepared

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I'm always surprised when a student wants to work hard and learn

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I'm always surprised when a student wants to work hard and learn

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(I didn't for a long time)

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they are lazy, they are demanding, they are biased

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they are lazy, they are demanding, they are biased

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Only care about grades

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Sometimes they actively choose to be awful, and I'm more than tempted to completely write them off.

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They are so passionate and earnest, and it is an incredible privilege to get to work with them.

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Want to learn

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Getting harder to work with

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They want to be spoon fed and not do the work to practice/learn.

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They want to be better at math, but don't know how to overcome their fixed mindset.

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They rely too much on technology

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especially unprepared since Covid

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More grade motivated than content motivated

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Doing the bare minimum

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Unprepared and not willing to engage

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Confused on the purpose of college and why they are here

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Confused on the purpose of college and why they are here

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They don’t put in the time, or can be entitled (the former is the majority, the latter a minority)

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Unmotivated

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they don't study enough and don't know algebra

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My students seem to come to college and haven't learned how to learn. 

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My students seem to come to college and haven't learned how to learn. 

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They are a mathematician and can do what they want by putting in the work.

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They are a mathematician and can do what they want by putting in the work.