Do Professors get paid to participate in an "Individual Projects" class?
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I can tell you for a fact that tenured and tenure-track professors do NOT get paid to supervise independent studies (which are called "individual projects" at your school).  And adjuncts are usually not asked to supervise independent studies, since they DO get paid by the class, and a "class" with one student does not count.\n\nFull-time instructors, assistant, associate, and full professors get paid an annual salary.  Most departments encourage us to take on independent studies with highly motivated students, but most do not require that we do so.  When we take on an independent study, we add it to our CV, acknowledging that we did this work.   \n\nBasically, I agree to do them if I have the time that semester, and decline if I do not.  I am more likely to agree to do one if :\n- the student is a major or minor\n- I have had the student in class before\n- the student is highly motivated\n- the student is strong academically.\n\nAs a matter of fact, I am delighted to do independent studies with students like this.   It is a pleasure to provide them with an opportunity to explore a field of interest independently, and (often) in greater depth than could be achieved in a formal classroom. \n\nSo -- don't hesitate to ask your professors to supervise an independent study.  Just realize that not every professor will be willing or able to accommodate your request.  And keep in mind that some will be delighted to do so.
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I assume you mean breaking the class into small groups.  Maybe, depending upon the topic being taught.  And depending upon the composition of the small groups.  Some topics lend themselves better to lecture, others to small study groups.  Generally I find it helpful to break up class activities into lecture, small groups, class presentations, etc.  Depends upon the maturity of the class, how motivated the students are.
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Maybe not individual contracts, but salray information should be available either on the department of education webpage for your state or on the webpage for each county (school district) because yes, it is public information.
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What is the purpose of this assignment?  Unless my name is going on it and I'm getting money or college credit for it, I'm not feeling too "creative".
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Obviously, some professors go too far, and grades shouldn't come into play nor should the classroom be a place to spread a professors ideology. As long as it isn't abused, and the professor seems to welcome discussion (assuming it's relevant to the class), I think it's worthwhile to know that professors aren't cookie cutter teachers--they're people with views. Part of college is hearing other views, and learning how to respond critically, either by questioning the views and/or shaping a learned counter response. \n\nI've been in classes where I've disagreed with an instructor, politically, but they presented their views in an articulate way that helped me understand how people with opposing viewpoints can work together. That was cool.\n\nI definitely think professors shouldn't be afraid to share their views, as long as it's relevant to the class and other opinions appear to be valued. I learned a lot about how to shape my viewpoints from professors who disagreed with me. They helped me present a more logical argument to support my viewpoint--that was their goal, and they didn't care if they disagreed with me.
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No, it is rarely negotiable.  There are usually many post-docs at the institution/lab and they all get paid the same.  If they really want you, you may have some bargaining power for things like travel, computer resources, etc.
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They usually get grants and stuff, sometimes they are professors that teach and reasearch at the same time.
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It sounds like you are asking for someone else's work to represent as your own.  Plagerism is one of the worst sins in academia and if you are discoverd it can force a failure grade and sometimes dismissal from the school
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talk to your teacher/professor - ask if there is other work you can submit to complete the course.
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While it would would be a time saver to get someone else to do your homework, the benefit of doing it yourself out weighs the time lost by doing it.  It is true that few students get caught handing in homework completed by someone else, but the guilt of receiving credit for someone else work can cause quite a head ache.  Further more, sooner or later you will pay the consequence of not doing the assignment your self.  Test day will roll around sooner or later and you will be unprepared.  When you receive an "F" on the test, the instructor will surely wonder what happened.\n\nAbove are five sentences.  The opinion is that people should do their own home work.  There are five points are:  Guilt, future consequences, instructor's realization, and self benefit of doing it yourself.   Good luck.
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It's called tenure and teachers also have to go through a performance review by their supervisors, other teachers, and students.  It is still in effect to my knowledge, mostly at colleges and universities.
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I have to agree, college lab reports are a colossal waste of time. I can see the point of doing one major report each term, but most college courses have students doing 4 or 5 reports form different subjects every WEEK. That’s  a farce. After the first 2 weeks the student has done 10 Lab Reports. If by that stage they still don’t know how to do it then they won’t learn by droning through another hundred.\n\nThe sad truth is that it’s done because people like me found it far easier to earn our pay as tutors and demonstrators by marking lab reports than actually interacting with students. A lot of that was laziness but some of it is the student body’s ‘fault’. A lab tutor I could fail someone if I felt I needed to based on a lab report, but based on personal interaction it’s very hard to make a case for a review panel if the student challenges (and they invariably will if they know you can’t make a case).\n\nAs I said, it would make far more sense to have one major report per subject per term. I tutored under one really cool professor who let my trail that Idea for Animal Physiology and it worked brilliantly (that was years ago and he still uses it). Those sorts of report are equivalent to real world report. Nobody in the real world writes a 5 page report on half a dozen replicates. That sort of stuff stays on the lab notebook until you actually publish or submit to clients. Once/term reports also have the advantage that students can repeat experiments that stuff up, rather than just copying someone else’s results (or making it up). It also allows students some leeway in choosing a project that will interest them. And the final benefit is that it allows the students to practice doing literature reviews, which is one skill that never gets taught sufficiently (if at all) to undergrads.\nUnfortunately laziness, apathy and blind tradition mean that far to few colleges implement such an idea. Instead hundreds of thousand of students every week write abstracts that are all but identical to the Materials and Methods section with a single line summary.  That’s practice for nothing at all, except doing it again next week.
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Your school should have a faculty member in charge of exchanges.  See if they have any specifically geared toward your focus.
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If you don't have to pay attention I assume that you know the material. Most colleges will let you 'test out' out of a class and take one that offers more challenges.  If not you could participate and offer explanations that would help other students that may not be as knowledgeable in the class as you are. Often,  although the professors are expert in whatever class they are teaching, they have difficulty relaying  information so students can understand it. Last of all, like most everything else in life, its a matter of attitude. You go expecting to be bored you will be!
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It depends on what the collaboration is about. A student? Funding? Program planning?
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depends...usually per project would be smarter so they don't slack off just to get more money...\n\nDON'T GIVE IN!!!
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Hi Itsme,   Sounds like this professor sucks in his teaching.So the class move on to a better class,and subject.\n\n  Clowmy