Msg. #0800 How to Prepare New Courses While Keeping Your Sanity
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Graduate |
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All Science and Engineering Chemical, Biochemical, Biomolecular Engineering General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Academic Careers and Issues |
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Reference - Article/Document |
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Richard Reis |
| Description: | "You'll spend an outlandish amount of time on the course-ten hours or more of preparation for every lecture hour. You'll start neglecting your research and your personal life just to keep up with the course preparation, and if you're unfortunate enough to have two new preps at once, you may no longer have a personal life to neglect. Your lecture notes will be so long and dense that to cover them you'll have to lecture at a pace no normal human being could possibly follow; you'll have no time for interactivity in class; and you'll end up skimming some important material or skipping it altogether." This posting gives some excellent tips on what to do, and not do, when preparing to teach a course for the first time. It is by Richard M. Felder, North Carolina State University, and Rebecca Brent, Education Designs, Inc. It is from Chem. Engr. Education, 41(2), 121–122 (Spring 2007). |
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| Keywords: | course preparation |
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Lead paragraphs Lead paragraph from article: "Think of a two-word phrase for a huge time sink that can effectively keep faculty members from doing the things they want to do. You can probably come up with several phrases that fit. "Proposal deadline" is an obvious one, as are "curriculum revision," "safety inspection," "accreditation visit," and "No Parking." (The last one is on the sign posted by the one open space you find on campus minutes before you're supposed to teach a class, with the small print that says "Reserved for the Deputy Associate Vice Provost for Dry Erase Marker Procurement.") But the phrase we have in mind is "new prep"-preparing for and teaching a course you've never taught before. This column describes the usual approach, which makes this challenging task almost completely unmanageable, and then proposes a better alternative." |
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| Publication Date: | May 2007 |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://ctl.stanford.edu/Tomprof/postings/800.html |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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Tomorrow's Professor
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