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<<So - she basically realized that she has to think about the teacher - not
<<just do the assignment, but do the assignment the way she thinks the teacher
<<wants it done.
I know I am quite late in responding to this thread, but......
I was one of those kids in school, including college, who always made good grades. Yes, sometimes it was that I was good at something and/or worked really hard. But most of the time it was because of my talent, if you will, at reading others. Especially teachers/professors. I was always really good at giving them what they wanted, although each one wanted something different. But I never really understood what I was doing until college. I took a lot of history classes as electives because I like history. And I usually took classes from the dept chair. One day a history major saw my grade on a mid-term and was incredulous, he asked how I got an A, no one ever got A's from this professor. I told him that he was my easiest professor because I only had to recount the professor's personal opinions as to why an event was important. It made history fun to see the big picture without having to memorize dates.
Then the big epiphany.....not because this history major could not understand the importance of history without dates but because he couldn't figure out how to get an A on the exam.
So, tell your daughter for me (if you haven't already) that success in college/public school does unfortunately sometimes depend on knowing what the professor wants and giving it to him even if it's not what you think you should. Kinda sounds like marriage sometimes too <BEG>
Cindy in VA (who also used this "talent" in an "enriching" way when she waited tables ;-)
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<<just do the assignment, but do the assignment the way she thinks the teacher
<<wants it done.
I know I am quite late in responding to this thread, but......
I was one of those kids in school, including college, who always made good grades. Yes, sometimes it was that I was good at something and/or worked really hard. But most of the time it was because of my talent, if you will, at reading others. Especially teachers/professors. I was always really good at giving them what they wanted, although each one wanted something different. But I never really understood what I was doing until college. I took a lot of history classes as electives because I like history. And I usually took classes from the dept chair. One day a history major saw my grade on a mid-term and was incredulous, he asked how I got an A, no one ever got A's from this professor. I told him that he was my easiest professor because I only had to recount the professor's personal opinions as to why an event was important. It made history fun to see the big picture without having to memorize dates.
Then the big epiphany.....not because this history major could not understand the importance of history without dates but because he couldn't figure out how to get an A on the exam.
So, tell your daughter for me (if you haven't already) that success in college/public school does unfortunately sometimes depend on knowing what the professor wants and giving it to him even if it's not what you think you should. Kinda sounds like marriage sometimes too <BEG>
Cindy in VA (who also used this "talent" in an "enriching" way when she waited tables ;-)
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