I Like Teaching

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So the teaching is continuing to go quite well. Teaching only two students hasn’t turned out to be as awkward as I was imagining it might be and both of the other classes I feel are going smoother than in the past, just from the fact that I have experience teaching them and thus am already prepared for the usual problems that students encounter in the classes.

I got my student evaluations back from last quarter and, if I’m allowed to brag on myself in my diary, I must say they were pretty amazingly good. The instructor is rated on a scale of 1-5 (with 1 being the best) in various categories and the worst average score I received was a 1.4! So, that’s basically as good as anyone could possibly expect and I feel the evaluations are even better when you consider over half of the students in my class had failing grades when they filled out the evaluation.

So, I am totally glowing over the evaluations and, meanwhile, I keep having students tell me how much better an instructor I am than the other accounting instructor at the university. And I even had a student switch into my class because she heard I was a better instructor! Which, obviously, generally students aren’t going to come to you and tell you that you’re a bad instructor, so my sample is tainted, but it’s still nice to hear and to feel somewhat appreciated.

Right, I know this is probably an unreadable self-congratulatory entry, but it’s just really nice to feel like I’m actually good at this job, especially after I felt as though I was so bad at my last one. But I’m going to stop now.

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