Doesn't anyone raise their hand anymore?

[HeartsOpenWide, RN]

I got a pet peeves. NOBODY raises their hand in college! I raise my hand while the teacher is answering questions and people just continue to blurt them out....I sit in the front so it is not like they can not see me, but people just blurt out questions as soon as the teacher answers the previous one, before the teacher can even tell me to "Go ahead" because he See's my hand is raised. It like this in all my classes. It really bugged me last semester in Anatomy, but people in my history class do it too. They interrupt and blurt out so much that the teacher can not even get to my raised hand and says that we have to move on. I end up having to stay after class so I can get my questions answered. UGH!:angryfire Does this happen to any one else? And if you do this...shut up, be polite and raise your hand!:trout:

[CTRNTOBE]

Uh, we aren't in kindergarden anymore toto. College is an open learing experience; if you have a question ask it, if you have to go to the bathroom just go.

hahahaha, just trying to add a little humor to your question.

Seriously, no one has ever raised their hand in any of the classes I have ever been in. In my program, the extroverts rise to the top and the introverts get left behind.

[JaxiaKiley]

Yeah, the only time people raise their hands in my classes is when someone else is already talking.

[TRINI_RN]

Yeah, the only time people raise their hands in my classes is when someone else is already talking.

Same thing here. In my classes it's pretty much open forum, we are polite enough to raise our hands or wait when someone else is talking. But, when my AP teacher asks a question she doesn't expect for us to raise our hands to answer it.

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Maybe those people were writing or reading and didn't see your hand. You shouldn't presume the worst in people because you have a pet peeve.

If an instructor wants students to raise their hands they should clarify it at the start. Otherwise adult learns should feel free to speak up. The same as we adults do in business meetings, staff meetings, and workshops as nurses in the real world.

Perhaps you should just give in and join the class and simply ask your questions. Or get irritated at the instructors for not saying "I'll answer your question after I answer HeartsOpenWide who had her hand up here in front".

Just my opinion. :)

[Cowboys_RN, BSN]

Yeah, the only time people raise their hands in my classes is when someone else is already talking.

Same thing in my nursing classes. I always feel bad for the person that sits there with their hand up forever and the instructor never notices. The instructors are used to the rest of us just asking our questions.

[maolin]

I agree with the others - hand raising just isn't done so much in college. While most of the class format is lecture style, it's also supportive of discussion and interaction. You have to learn to be a little assertive with this. When I need to speak up I usually start with an "Excuse me instructor-name, I have a question." or "I'm sorry, can you please clarify ...". And so on.

[firstaiddave907]

i agree wiht you i hate that how no one rasies there hand they just yell out questions and you have to wait untill the end of calls just to get your questions answered. what ever happend to manners?

[matt59]

I always thought it was kind of a courtesy thing to raise my hand before asking a question....

But some of the classes I've taken were conducted on basically a free-for-all protocol, so for those classes, if blurting worked better than raising I blurted when I felt I had to.

Matt

[maliat]

I've only had one class in college where we raised our hands. And that was only because there were 40+ people and we all wanted to talk. I guess that is what happens when you have a graduate level class of overacheivers.

I've found the problem now that I've taken nursing pre-reqs is that no one asks questions or answers questions when the instructor asks us.

Malia

[karmyk]

I went to a military service academy... and before that a Catholic school, so I've always been used to a certain level of discipline in the classroom. When I started taking prereqs at "normal" colleges and universities... I had a difficult time adjusting to people simply blurting out answers (as opposed to raising my hand). In fact... teachers would look at me funny whenever I raised my hand... as if they didn't know what to do when a student raised their hand. >

I still do it, though... can't get it out of my system. Most of my teachers eventually get used to it. ^^;

[jenn_rn_nj]

My experience thus far has been that class is an "open forum". The teacher will often interact with the class and hand raising isn't necessary in that situation.

Occasionally, the prof will begin to move onto a slightly new topic/area or maybe speak more formally (lecture) and if I have a question in that scenario, I raise my hand and wait to be acknowledged.