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August 16, 2006
And awaaaaaay we go
Classes start tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM.
I am so not ready. Nonetheless, I shall wing it to the best of my ability, and I might even say something intelligent on the way.
I've found that I read something somewhere this summer - I think it was this bit on Inside Higher Ed on the expectations that we place on our students (and that we usually don't communicate nearly well enough). Of course, instead of being a gentle encouragement to communicate better, reading this caused me to go completely emo over every single expectation I've ever had of a student and attempting to figure out how to communicate that expectation set better. It's the reason that my syllabi are progressively getting longer, and that in Biochemistry the handout that describes the group project will be five pages in length.
What this means, of course, is that I have effectively not practiced what I preached. I have "let the best become the enemy of the good", as my old doctoral advisor once said, and I've been so psycho about getting the best possible information and completeness into my syllabi that I'm up against the very semester itself and they're not DONE, and they've taken away from me worrying about, you know, the actual stuff I'm TEACHING.
Which means, enough writing about not being ready and more actually getting ready.
Posted by Chuck at August 16, 2006 09:15 PM
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