Oddly enough, I'm ready for finals week.
I have all my final exams either being copied or posted to the course management system.
I'm very close to being caught up on the grading.
My administrivia is trivial.
I'm working on the syllabi for next semester. The nice thing is that my logic classes all meet T/Th, during the day -- so I can write the same syllabus for all three sections. That just leaves me the one ethics section. My goal is to have them done by finals week -- so all I have to do is send them to be copied and I'll be ready to go by spring.
Spring 2010 will be the first semester at BNCC I won't be teaching AT ALL in the evening. For a while there my philosophy courses were in the day and my debate stuff was at night. Some semesters I was on campus 3-4 nights per week -- 2 for debate -- Over the last four semesters (including summer) I've taught a total of 6 classes that started at 6:00.... none of those were debate coaching.
Also-- my actual prep next semester will be minimal. Logic is now a no-prep class for me -- just the grading -- and in Ethics we're covering the same topics as this semester, so it's all done... YEA!!! I can even go in and copy my old course into the new shell -- so all the powerpoints and other stuff will be there for me.
I suppose it's a good thing that next semester will be relatively no-fuss -- as I hope to defend my dissertation next semester... so, I'll be busy :).
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Balance--teaching is a balancing act of timing exams, projects, your own work...I don't miss that part much at all!
Congrats on your (so far) painless finals week! That's a real treat.
I, too, have the same Tue-Thu schedule in the spring, thank heavens. Screw the evening class stuff; getting home past 10pm is for the birds.
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