Sunday, May 24, 2009
not a post about my syllabi
Creating a syllabus can be a lonely part of teaching. It requires intense engagement, requires focused creativity, and it often involves great excitement. Yet it's pretty much you and the syllabus here: if you try bothering to tell people about the little enthusiasms and frustrations, the progress and the choices, the difficult decisions and the joyful optimism, they'll be (rightfully) bored and uninterested.
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I would not be at all bored. I think about them a lot. I, too, get excited. I have succumbed to the temptation to add jokes and various imprecations, exhortations, and heartiness. Are you doing summer teaching?
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