Carrie Shanafelt on Nostr: As I near the end of the semester, with students in a variety of situations, as ...

As I near the end of the semester, with students in a variety of situations, as always, I try to remember what one of my first years said last term: Remember that more flexibility is also more complexity. Negotiation is work not spent on the material itself.

COVID era college instruction has taught all of us to find ways to soften deadlines, allow negotiation of requirements, be responsive to informal as well as formal requests for shifting structure. But it is also more work for them too.