Teaching New Years Resolutions
Its the hush before the storm as term has yet to start at either Leeds or Cambridge. As its the new year, Ive been thinking about my teaching resolutions this year. How can I make my teaching more effective? More friendly to disadvantaged groups? How can I set a good example for women students? Heres somethings I want to focus on this term: 1. Students use of email. Last term I found I was drowning in emails from students, often expecting very quick responses. I initially responded within a few hours, often during weekends and late at night. I think this created a culture of student dependence on email, where they would email me without first looking for answers themselves. And it created bad expectations about what my job entails, and what the students could expect from me *and my colleagues*. I might be able to choose to spend a few hours of personal time at the weekend, but Im not comfortable making that choice for my colleagues. This term I am going to take the departmen