I spent the end of last week preparing the syllabus and the online components of my classes. Then last night, I started on lesson plans. Sometimes I can re-use lesson plans from previous quarters, but I always need to tweak them. And this quarter I have a class I haven't taught since 2008, so the book has changed. That one took a long time to schedule and will take even more time to plan each week.
I'm teaching 19 hours at one college and 8 hours at the other college. Thus, the coming avalanche. However, I plan to swim steadily forward at the top of the avalanche, until I am forced to tread water and if I am buried by the avalanche, I'll stick up my ski pole so someone can dig me out.
After all, the quarter will end eventually sometime in March, and if I work hard and my students work hard, we could end up avoiding the avalanche. And the money that I make teaching all of these classes will cover my daughter's next semester of college.
How about you? Is the new year going to be a challenge?
2 comments:
I love the picture and your attitude. I'm trying to enjoy, in denial that it all starts all over again tomorrow. I can hear that dreaded ticking of the 60 minutes clock, tick, tick, tick, tick...
Fingers in my ears..hummming to drown the sound and say I am not listening
I'm retired so I don't have that to go through anymore. I just had to go to work everyday, with no planning on my part. I don't miss it at all.
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