Fucked up that our entire higher education system still runs on the assumption that if you are naturally very good at a thing, you'll be good at teaching that thing to someone who isn't naturally good at it.
I know that I had to learn, the hard way, that not all my students know what active reading is or how to do it. That they can use their book/notes/Google during an online quiz. That I want them to email me with questions and that I won't be mad or judge them.
A lot of students don't know that spending 10 hours on a short assignment doesn't mean they're being virtuous, but that something is unclear/getting in their way. Or that in your average class, some of the assigned readings can probably just be skimmed or skipped.
Students, especially nontraditional adult learners, don't always know how many awesome, time-saving online resources are available. They don't know there's online statistics calculators or free APA formatting guides so they waste all kinds of time and money.
And a lot of professors just never even inquire into students' knowledge of this stuff, because it's so second nature to them that they think everybody knows it. If you got into grad school, you're generally someone who was naturally adept at school.
Study skills and resource finding skills are widely transferable -- they can help in so many courses and areas of life. Yet many of us in higher education never teach those skills to our students, we just expect them to intuit it (or to have had the training in it we had).
And a lot of professors just never even inquire into students' knowledge of this stuff, because it's so second nature to them that they think everybody knows it.
