CTSE Event

Are you angry at your students?
Learn to be more realistic and become a happier professor.

This presentation and discussion is intended to help faculty members understand why they are angry at their students and to learn some techniques to reduce that anger. Keeping anger at a low level is important because it clouds thinking in subtle ways and can interfere with the teaching process. Anger can lead faculty members to focus inappropriately on the negative aspects of student behavior, to produce lower quality lectures, and to disregard student ideas. In addition, research evidence shows that long-term anger and rumination is associated with increases in cardiac disease, hypertension, and stroke. Thus, in addition to the negative educational aspects of anger, it can be toxic for faculty members over the long term.

Much anger develops because faculty members come to the classroom with high expectations about students. After all, this is university life where students will supposedly be interested in history, current events, science, literature, the arts, and so on. They are expected to want to attend classes and read assignments, to be able to write relatively well, and to converse with some degree of maturity. Faculty anger develops when these expectations are not met. Understanding anger from the perspective of an anger episode model, and learning to keep it under control will be examined in this presentation.

Lunch will be served.

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Please R.S.V.P. to Jeanne Racioppi by September 28 at x3-6221 or via e-mail.