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Jan. 1st, 2010 11:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruA week from today, I'll be sitting in the TAs' meeting room with all my fellow TAs for our pre-semester scheduling meeting. This is when we choose which two sections will be all ours for the semester. Since the only other obligation I have this semester is trying the hell to get my research together, I pretty much have a wide open schedule. Oh, the possibilities!
I'm kinda in a quandry, though. I already know that I want to take sections that are early in the week, as I have a tendency to obsess over teaching, and can't really relax until it's out of the way. I also know I want to take my two sections on the same day, so I get them done all at once, so I don't spend the night in between up and fretting over the next day. The real question, then, is Monday, or Tuesday? I've taught both before, and they each have their advantages and disadvantages. And since I haven't exercised my power to poll yet, I think it's high time I fixed that and ask for your opinions!
The way I see it, these are the advantages and disadvantages:
Monday pros:
--It gets done and out of the way really early! That'll give me the rest of the week to focus on other things.
--Monday is not a very popular day, and Monday morning has to be the absolute least popular time to take a lab. So that means fewer papers to grade.
Monday cons:
--Since the weekly meeting is on Friday, I basically have only the weekend to prepare, which makes me somewhat frantic as I try to pull everything together. I've taught this class once before, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to take the time to sit down and walk through what I'm going to say with myself. That means my weekends are a little frantic.
--There are a lot more absences. I think a lot of students, if they didn't feel well over the weekend, decide to just stay home, especially for the Monday morning class. That means I do a lot more stressing over getting them made up and caught up. I'd much rather have a class with everyone there than one with a ton of absences.
Tuesday pros:
--I get a bit more time to prepare, so my weekends aren't quite the frantic rush they can be.
--There's usually fewer absences, so that's less stress there.
Tuesday cons:
--WAAAAAAITING. I like to get my teaching over and done with as early as possible. I know it's only a day, but it's likely a day that I will spend obsessing over preparing, rather than getting my research done. And extra time for research is a good thing.
So, gentle readers, what do you think?
[Poll #1506110]
I'm kinda in a quandry, though. I already know that I want to take sections that are early in the week, as I have a tendency to obsess over teaching, and can't really relax until it's out of the way. I also know I want to take my two sections on the same day, so I get them done all at once, so I don't spend the night in between up and fretting over the next day. The real question, then, is Monday, or Tuesday? I've taught both before, and they each have their advantages and disadvantages. And since I haven't exercised my power to poll yet, I think it's high time I fixed that and ask for your opinions!
The way I see it, these are the advantages and disadvantages:
Monday pros:
--It gets done and out of the way really early! That'll give me the rest of the week to focus on other things.
--Monday is not a very popular day, and Monday morning has to be the absolute least popular time to take a lab. So that means fewer papers to grade.
Monday cons:
--Since the weekly meeting is on Friday, I basically have only the weekend to prepare, which makes me somewhat frantic as I try to pull everything together. I've taught this class once before, but that doesn't stop me from wanting to take the time to sit down and walk through what I'm going to say with myself. That means my weekends are a little frantic.
--There are a lot more absences. I think a lot of students, if they didn't feel well over the weekend, decide to just stay home, especially for the Monday morning class. That means I do a lot more stressing over getting them made up and caught up. I'd much rather have a class with everyone there than one with a ton of absences.
Tuesday pros:
--I get a bit more time to prepare, so my weekends aren't quite the frantic rush they can be.
--There's usually fewer absences, so that's less stress there.
Tuesday cons:
--WAAAAAAITING. I like to get my teaching over and done with as early as possible. I know it's only a day, but it's likely a day that I will spend obsessing over preparing, rather than getting my research done. And extra time for research is a good thing.
So, gentle readers, what do you think?
[Poll #1506110]
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Date: 2010-01-02 07:22 pm (UTC)I don't know how this will all work yet as this is the first time doing full college level classes, though I do plan to concentrate less on pre-work and more on the actual information and knowledge, as this group will not want to stay awake for the rest.
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Date: 2010-01-04 05:48 am (UTC)tuesday students are actually more awake.
tuesdays are just pretty.
i was born on a tuesday.
mondays SUCK!
mondays are spent getting over the up-all-night/sleep-all-day habits of the weekend, esp when people have a friday off, too.
why in the world would you want to go around chasing students who skipped monday's class? ugh, even more work! and wouldn't there be the possibility of fretting about making sure everyone had all of the information?
i can fully understand the want of getting things done ASAP on monday, but, i'm a friggin' zombie on monday and always have been. so are many students.
tuesday just seems the more logical choice, jim. ^_^