In December I called and scheduled a doctor's appointment for tomorrow. I called today to
Five minutes later, I realized I had MISSED MY MORNING CLASS! As in, I am the professor and a class of 30 students were sitting there waiting for me this morning. I failed to show I did not even realize it until 1:15 this afternoon.
Let me backtrack. This semester I am teaching 2 classes as opposed to the one I taught last semester so things are bound to be a bit more crazy (Yay-I thrive on being busy!). In the fall, I was given a schedule for the Spring, which said one of the classes was on Tues and Thurs evenings and the other was on Mon and Thurs mornings. This was good so I was only teaching 3 days a week, but only one day a week would be doubled-up. In December, I looked up my schedules and classrooms and I started writing my syllabi based on those schedules.
Because of the holiday, there were no Monday classes this week. So that left me teaching a Tues evening class, a Thurs morning class, and a Thurs evening class this week. Totally manageable for the first week of class. (The extra Mon class would be made up at the end of the semester).
At 1:15 this afternoon, I double-checked the online schedule to make sure I had the correct classrooms. It was then I noticed my Mon and Thurs morning class was actually on Tues and Fri mornings. What?
Somehow between the paper I was given and when the schedules were published online, the days, times, and classrooms of one of my classes had completely changed. And no one bothered to tell me.
So yes, I had to make a great impression on my students this afternoon by sending an email explaining how I, the instructor, had missed the first day of class. Awesome.
Question: What would you do if your professor failed to show up for class on the first day? Never mind, please do not answer. I DO NOT WANT TO KNOW.
Oh my goodness what a crazy day!! I teach elementary and I can't tell you how many nightmares I have had about me not showing up to on the first day of school haha. I'm so sorry this actually happened to you. That is a great story and totally not your fault with all the changes.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure your students were all just fine:)
oh man, I am sorry to hear about the mess up!!
ReplyDeleteYou have a hard job of teaching!
In highschool, everyone would wait patiently and if the teacher was 15 minutes late, we all late. That was the student's "rule". Is that even a rule?? Probably not. lol.
Oh boy! It's okay, Amy. You could make up for it by doing a video with you webcam. You could talk about the syllabus and introduce yourself. That way you don't have to lose more ground by talking about that stuff in the next session. Technology saves!
ReplyDeleteooooh. Not a bad idea! Now let's see if I can that together and do it.
DeleteAhahaha. That is terrible, but it's also nice to know it happens to professors as well! I worked really hard to get into a math class that started a couple of weeks ago (lots of special permissions and whatnot) and swore to the professor that I will work my butt off to do well, only to show up to a completely different building the first day of class (a building a LONG WAYS from the actual building!) and arrive at the correct classroom (bright red and wheezing) 20 minutes late. It's a pretty awful feeling. I'm not sure what I'd do if I were the professor though... As a student, I'd probably be confused but it wouldn't bother me too much (as long as it's not a regular thing!).
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