Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I love your passion for teaching! I agree with you that learning should be more dynamic with various experiences than simple knowledge transfer. Although organizing those trips, experiments, or other new experiences need so much efforts, time and money, I saw professors who were willing to take those efforts for better learning of their students. I believe that you will be a professor like them in the future.
Author: Soo Jeong Jo
Comment on ‘Delicate Handling of Intellectual Diversity’ by Soo Jeong Jo
Your advisor “never compares one with another,” that sounds great! I think comparison with others creates stress and takes away passion for work. You are lucky to meet such a great advisor!
Comment on My Diversity Statement by Soo Jeong Jo
Thank you for your comments! I hope I could do that again this year, but maybe not because I have too much work this year ? But I heard that Hokie Wellness program or other organizations are preparing international cooking classes as well.
Comment on Who Knows How to Use a Screw Driver? by Soo Jeong Jo
Thank you for the funny pictures! The last one is my favorite, our group also talked about equity, and the difference between equality and equity. Similar to your picture, we also found a picture describing equality and equity: all riding the same bicycles is actually equality, and riding all different bicycles according to the height of each person was equity.
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Comment on Being the professional mean guy? by Soo Jeong Jo
I like your expression – “professional mean guy” hahaha. I think that is a really difficult task to be mean. I heard many stories about students who came to the TA crying or being angry because of their grades. I didn’t have those experiences yet, but I have no idea how I should react to that kinds of situations if it happens to me. Specifically, if a student says he or she will lose the scholarship because of 1 point in my class, that would be a hard situation to conclude.
Comment on I am me and I can be no one else. by Soo Jeong Jo
Thank you for sharing your stories. Thinking about teaching, I feel like learning more about myself at the same time. It is my pleasure to explore your thoughts made during your teaching experiences because I don’t have teaching experiences yet.
Comment on “Korea-osity” by Soo Jeong Jo
Hahaha, I am happy that she likes Korean culture as a Korean. This might be helpful for giving your grand daughter a motivation to study (?): a term “hot brain” is popular in Korea, which means a celebrity who is smart as well. Some TV shows invite idol stars graduated from famous universities, and have them solve a problem or discuss social and cultural issues. This phenomenon created a new trend among teenagers to yearn for wisdom, and think about our society in depth.
Comment on Be Knowledgeable Before Being Creative by Soo Jeong Jo
I somewhat agree with you, but wonder if this argument can be applied in the other fields such as fine art or music, like a case of a genius teenage musician?
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