I WILL NOT test on all the course material. However, students are expected to remain attentive class participants, read course materials, take useful notes, and have a working understanding of all the course materials. In addition, I often expect students to actively and responsibily participate in the educational decision making processes. Both, testing and deadlines are necessary practical components of bureaucracy. On occasion, timetables may unnecessarily interfere with the goal of learning.
Conflicts do, in fact, exist in the real world.
We are obligated to take tests and adhere to deadlines. We are not obligated to rigidly accept timetables and deadlines that do not serve our learning processes. If reasonable advance concern is raised, the class may be given the opportunity to request a change in our testing timetables. In order to maximize learning processes, timetables should remain flexible. If students expect to be handed only the necessary materials to recite for testing purposes, they may be frustrated and disappointed.