I really enjoyed live tweeting the first day's events at the EPA
conference in NYC. Excellent first day - lots of interesting posters
from grads and undergrads and some excellent, information-filled
presentations. I've been tweeting as many links, recommended books,
and great quotes as my
Carol
There was an original question? :) We did stray a bit, didn't we! Ok, here are
a few of my strategies (and I'll also start with a short explanation). I too am
tenured, department chair, but also swamped with committee assignments (tenure
and promotions, advising task force, etc). And yes t
OK, I originally posted my message because I seriously want to know what
people do in such a situation; I didn't mean to incite arguments. I have
been enjoying, for the most part, the comments about this thread and I
think they are pretty telling. Because I want to prepare for times when
I might be
Louis Schmier wrote, "Carol, as it happened, that very thing happened today.
It was just one of those days. I just wasn't in the mood. I walked into
class, small talked a few minutes, and told them I wasn't in the mood like
sometimes they aren't. "Let's go home," I said. We did. It doesn't
Mike:
Tenure, like I said: fear and self-preservation in a we/them context.
Pedagogy: you evaded my question.
Make it a good day.
--Louis--
Louis Schmier http://www.therandomthoughts.com
Department of History
http://www.therandomthoughts.edublogs.org
Stuart said: "However, we have an obligation to offer our teaching services to
students who want to be there and have paid to be there. Unless one is
personally ill, I cannot see why we would not just buckle down and rise to the
occasion. There could be students in the class who had similar feel
Just a couple of points:
(1) Personally, I usually pay no mind to what Louis says
about teaching. He's not a psychologist (though one doesn't
have to be a psychologist to say meaningful things about
teaching), he's a tenured professor (which shouldn't be held
against him but might blind him to
Again, I'm don't disagree with you. But, our service to the students
can take many forms sometimes our illness can be subliminal and low
level, but enough that we're not aware of it or it lays us low when
were on campus. It's certainly not cut and dry. So, don't draw any
inferences from my "t
Dear Louis,
>From your many posts we know that you take your teaching seriously. Your
>current one only reinforces that.
You say that you have not had to resort to dismissing class in the last three
semesters, which seems to imply that you have done it before, albeit I am sure
infrequently.
H
Regarding Carol DeVolder's query about how to teach when you don't feel like
it...(I'm trying to follow the TIPS request to remove the gigabytes of
forwards and concisely sum up the ongoing post):
Perhaps I'm one of those people who has hyperthymia (read Richard Powers'
wonderful novel, *Generosit
Stuart, I certainly appreciate what you're saying. And, I don't necessarily
disagree with
you. But, (here comes that proverbial but), you cannot give what you don't
have. When
you're not there, stiff upper lip and mustering whatever not withstanding, and
you're just
going through the motions
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