http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/letting-teaching-and-research-feed-each-other/ education | teaching | math | technology Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:57:58 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/letting-teaching-and-research-feed-each-other/#comment-16274 Robert Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:53:29 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/?p=1278#comment-16274 @John: You're right, and what students find interesting is not only that professors have to deal with rejections, but that for us, the only thing more disappointing than negative feedback is a rejection with no feedback at all. I was a PI on a grant my college recently submitted to a funding agency and we were turned down -- with no indication of what the issues were or why we were rejected. How are we supposed to get funding for this thing, or submit a better proposal next year? Students tend to gloss over professors' feedback, and they are a little surprised to learn that feedback is valuable, positive or negative. @John: You’re right, and what students find interesting is not only that professors have to deal with rejections, but that for us, the only thing more disappointing than negative feedback is a rejection with no feedback at all. I was a PI on a grant my college recently submitted to a funding agency and we were turned down — with no indication of what the issues were or why we were rejected. How are we supposed to get funding for this thing, or submit a better proposal next year? Students tend to gloss over professors’ feedback, and they are a little surprised to learn that feedback is valuable, positive or negative.

]]> http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/letting-teaching-and-research-feed-each-other/#comment-16273 John Murray Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:33:12 +0000 http://castingoutnines.wordpress.com/?p=1278#comment-16273 I have a five course load, but would like to note an important part of an active research agenda: REJECTIONS! Whether from granting agencies, journals, book publishers, doesn't matter. I can tell my students--especially in the writing-intensive class--to learn from bad grades, just as I learn from rejections. It seems to help. I have a five course load, but would like to note an important part of an active research agenda: REJECTIONS! Whether from granting agencies, journals, book publishers, doesn’t matter. I can tell my students–especially in the writing-intensive class–to learn from bad grades, just as I learn from rejections. It seems to help.

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