Timeline for Is it a good idea to email underperforming students?
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| Oct 16, 2023 at 20:12 | comment | added | Esther | Coming from a student in the US who was struggling a bit and had a professor contact me, it was very helpful. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 13:12 | history | edited | Kal8578 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Added a relevant information that was unclear.
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| Oct 16, 2023 at 13:08 | comment | added | ScottishTapWater | @user1079505 - I think expanding that last bullet might vary too much from country to country and institution to institution | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 13:05 | comment | added | Kal8578 | Kimball : No, it wasn't in the US (that's why I mentioned "in my country" at the beginning, hoping that it'd imply I am not American and thus my culture might not be OP's culture, but restrospectively it was a bit unclear, sorry about that). Yes, it was higher education, in France. I won't get into long and irrelevant details, but in the public system where I taught, retaking the year upon failure once is a thing (that comes with drawbacks). And imo it is a good thing, since e.g. medical or personal issues can happen and the affected students deserve a second chance. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 12:59 | comment | added | Kimball | the school council, in which we discussed what to do with the students who failed (allow them to retake the year ? - Is this at a university? If so, what country? Repeating a year doesn't really make sense in a US university system. | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 10:41 | comment | added | Kal8578 | user479223 : nice to see things are working well for you ! user1079505 : I understand your comment, but I don't think I'd be able to come up with such a list that isn't highly incomplete, and I wouldn't want readers to take such a list as (nearly) exhaustive. Actually, this concern was mine back then I was faced with the situation for the first time, and the only solution I came up with was, as explained, to strictly use school-controlled means to interact with the students about the subject. So I prefer not to answer this, instead of giving a misleading answer. Sorry ! | |
| Oct 16, 2023 at 2:40 | vote | accept | user479223 | ||
| Oct 16, 2023 at 0:19 | comment | added | user479223 | I actually received several responses and it seemed to have been helpful. Some students had some concrete issues that I tried to address. Others just said they would come to office hours. All of them thanked me. | |
| Oct 15, 2023 at 23:50 | comment | added | user1079505 | Nice answer! I think it would be useful to expand the last bullet with examples of dos and donts to keep things professional. | |
| Oct 15, 2023 at 23:31 | history | edited | Kal8578 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Fixed unclear sentence (english not my mother tongue).
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| S Oct 15, 2023 at 23:29 | review | First answers | |||
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| S Oct 15, 2023 at 23:29 | history | answered | Kal8578 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |