In a county finance class, a clerk asks to spend the morning on keyboard shortcuts. The designed objectives are accurate journal entries. The request is extra and harmless. How should the instructor reconcile the personal objective with the course design?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Shortcuts are a nice side street; journal-entry accuracy is the highway the city paid for. Write the extra on a parking-lot board and still drive the required labs. Nobody gets punished for asking—and the course does not get hijacked.
Full Explanation
Instructors reconcile personal objectives with designed course objectives rather than silently dropping either. A harmless extra such as keyboard shortcuts can be parked and addressed if time remains after journal-entry practice. Replacing required labs, shaming the requester, or promising to abandon the designed objective all fail that reconciliation.