Econ 490 Fall Joan Robinson

After reading your post from your Lanny on Learning blog about teaching introverted students, I found it gave additional insight into why the class is structured the way it is. I appreciated reading your post and wish you could have suggested other posts to read throughout the semester in the comments of my posts. I understand that it would take a lot of time and bit of a ridiculous request, but I did enjoy reading that post on the related subject. Attendance was not required for the live class and I found this to be true in most of my other classes after sophomore year. Attendance tends to be optional is higher lever classes and the only class I have mandatory attendance for is my ECON 198 class where attendance makes up most of the points. It is a satisfy/unsatisfied class and focuses on careers in economics, which is not an academic related course.   The class surveys that were offered for a bonus of 5 point to students who attended class for most of the semester. However,

Before writing on this week’s prompt, I want to make an update or a future update to a previous post. At the beginning of the semester I wrote about my internship at a medical practice where the supervisor was a poor leader and the dysfunctional working environment that came with it. I have decided to go back to the office over winter break and I’m curious to see if improvements were made by the office manager or if they are continuing to be ignored. I know the semester will be over by the time I am able to make these observations, but I think it will be interesting to find out if the organization evolved or continued at their previous status. I want to observe the new group dynamics because I have been told they hired a few new people and a few have left. An interesting detail is that one of the new hires is the daughter of the supervisor. I’m sure this will come with new conflicts at the office.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------