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  • #31
    My math teacher recently had a bit of an explosion on one student. Math teacher writes problems on the board, then goes step by step to solve the problem. This guy just would NOT stop yelling the answer out, even after the teacher shushed him several times over the course of a couple of weeks. The last time he blurted the answer out, she dropped the chalk, closed her eyes and loudly says, "For the love all that is holy, STOP SAYING THE ANSWERS ALREADY!". He doesn't talk much in class anymore.

    I say kudos to you, LingualMonkey, for telling the Chatty Cathys off. Its disruptive to the people paying an arm and a leg to be in your class. And rude.

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    • #32
      Quoth zibmai View Post
      My math teacher recently had a bit of an explosion on one student. Math teacher writes problems on the board, then goes step by step to solve the problem. This guy just would NOT stop yelling the answer out, even after the teacher shushed him several times over the course of a couple of weeks. The last time he blurted the answer out, she dropped the chalk, closed her eyes and loudly says, "For the love all that is holy, STOP SAYING THE ANSWERS ALREADY!". He doesn't talk much in class anymore.

      I say kudos to you, LingualMonkey, for telling the Chatty Cathys off. Its disruptive to the people paying an arm and a leg to be in your class. And rude.
      You just reminded me of a classmate of mine at ITT. He was generally an okay person, if a little bit... off. (I think he may have had Asperger's or something like it.) In one math class we were both in, he would have the answers worked out easily, and would blurt them out repeatedly. The teacher never blew up at him, but did give him a firm talking to, and he kept quiet from then on. (Good thing, too, since I could see several people in the class wanted to strangle him.)
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      • #33
        I used to blurt out answers in my history classes. I always sit front row center, so I couldn't see behind me . . . and I have Aspbergers. Finally my teacher said, very gently, "Panacea, please let the others in the class have a chance to answer my questions."

        They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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        • #34
          My Asian Art and Architecture professor has been known to stop his lecture, point his clicker at people, and ask if they're texting or surfing instead listening to him. If the student says "no", he immediately asks them what the last thing he just discussed was. So far, no one's messed up.

          It does help that most of the classrooms on campus are Faraday cages. No cell phone signals once you walk in the door!

          I don't know if I've been lucky or what, but in my current college, classes have been generally silent. Too silent, in many cases. I'm currently in an English class where we attempt to define and discuss broad topics in American society (first 'gender', then 'opportunity', 'education', and now 'melting pot'). You HAVE to participate, or at least pay strong attention, because you're going to be writing a paper based on that discussion and the readings. But the discussion is always carried on by the same few people. In fact, the professor had me pegged as an older student, despite me looking the same age as the others, simply because I was willing to speak up in class.
          It's little things that make the difference between 'enjoyable', 'tolerable', and 'gimme a spoon, I'm digging an escape tunnel'.

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