Patience

... I have been known to express my gratitude that we haev mandatory assessment and placement, since I would like my job so much less were I in that nasty tutoring situation of simply not no way no how being able to get a student where they want to be.
I realize this week that I wouldn't be able to do my job. I honestly do morph from a patient and skilled tutor to a cranky, demeaning creature from the depths trying to hide behind a mask of forced kindness at times... and specifically, at the times when a student is trying to learn the whole section of math in three hours, or trying to complete a research paper when they don't quite know what paraphrasing is.
Fortunately it doesn't happen *that* often... but there's more of it this semester. Hopefully it's not a trend... and hopefully, now that I've identified the culprit, I can come up with a management strategy. I stink at masks.
(Still don't like blogs rife with spelling and apostrophe errors. I definitely don't like 'em. )