"students don't do reading assignments because they can achieve their goals without doing them"
Following up from Monday's discussion about the frustrations of teaching, here is a handout that I give to TAs that work with me. I don't think there is a good answer to the problem of getting students to do the readings before class, but this handout has helped me in the past. The frustrating thing about this is that there is no simple solution to the problem.
The title of this blog post is a quote from the handout. Here it is:
Getting Students to do Reading Assignments
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