Jonathon Hersman

I get alot of students ranging from brand new students on campus to students that have been in school for a year or two that will stop me in the parking lot or hallway and will ask a question about a project they are working on, and even though I am usually a man on a mission, I always stop and listen and try to help them out, it makes a big difference, and I know they appreciate it.

Hi Gary, Our course maps are printed with our packets that get passed out to students. We are not allowed to change anything with the way they are printed, we can make suggestions and it gets reviewed by our curriculum department and then they will either accept or deny the suggestion. So what I do is I go over the course map, and have the students write in the necessary info on the map.

At the end of a grading period, I think it is important to remind students not to miss the first day of the new rotation. That is the day where not only you meet and greet the students, but it's also the day we go over grading, lab and safety procedures, give handouts, and course maps (or syllabus). This is a day were we usually do not get into lab since it is mostly lecture, so students will habitually miss this first, and most important day.

At our school we have course maps instead of syllabus. The problem with this is that course maps are nothing but just the name of the projects. It would be nice to have the project name and maybe a description of the project and / or goals.

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