"Gordon D. Pusch" wrote:
>
> >> : 22 hour/week
> >> : Indeed it's a half time job (50% appointment, essentially).
> >> : So now, $234/week after taxes makes $10.60/hour.
> >>
> >> Interesting arithmetic... all of our part-time lecturers are efficient
> >> enough to spend no more than about 10 hours a week on a class, so, Petr,
> >> you've just disqualified yourself by admitting your inefficiency!
>
> When I was in Grad-school, if I allocated only the the Departmental
> ``officially expected'' amount of time to grading the reports for the
> Physics Labs I taught, I would have needed to grade them at the rate of
> one per every 1.5 minutes --- hardly enough time to even *read* them,
> let alone effectively comment on any errors in them !!! :-(
I think Mark is interested in "efficient" lectureship, not necessarily
in effective pedagogy. From the point of "efficiency", I can see how a
class with three one-hour lectures per week could be reduced to _six_
hours a week of total work load.
How? Just cut out any lecture preparation (teach from the book), grading
(you _do_ have a grader), supervision (the TA should know what s/he's
doing in discussion, and if they don't it's not your fault), don't
answer any email from students, and limit your office hours to 45
minutes per week.
Voila`, it can be done. Mark, I stand corrected. Now, would you want
_your_ kid to take a Statistics class like that?
-- Petr
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