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May 01, 2007
On the Downhill Slope?
Probably not. But I've just about finished the grading for my Comm class (now I'm waiting for their very last 1-2 page papers to trickle in), and I've made at least a dent in the final papers for my other classes.
Note to self: While writing is important, must figure out how to make less grading work for me next year.
I'm averaging about 6 papers an hour, which sounds pretty good until I point out that I have 65 to read. Plus the final projects they're doing next week during their final exam time. Again, emphasis on less grading for Sally when building syllabi. There has to be a way to make sure they get the same kind of opportunities to explore and grow without having to turn in so much paper. I clearly need to converse with other Core faculty.
But. Tomorrow I can grade all day. (Whee.) I don't teach at all tomorrow, I just get to go into the Core Office to talk to the lovely, lovely admin about when to schedule one of my Core classes next semester. (If I'm lucky, I'm going to get to teach two different courses. Yay!)
I'm also teaching an upper-division Voice class for the Theatre Dept. And, I've proposed a one-credit special topics acting class to co-teach with a Jungian member of the Psych Dept. It would be cross-listed under Psych and Theatre and could be tons of fun. So if all goes well, I'll have 5 different classes and be teaching 11-14 credits, with only two of them being multiple sections of the same class. Otherwise, it's new preps for me all round. Woot! A real teacher at last at last.
Posted by sally at May 1, 2007 10:17 PM
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