YCC 20 |
| The first year of academic work initiates one into a demanding career of being pulled in several directions. Not unlike graduate school, new faculty must handle multiple and varied tasks – teaching, research, grant writing, committee work, and other duties to the department or institution. Disequilibrium can be a more frequent state than equilibrium. Stress is unavoidable, but can be managed. In this presentation, I will share experiences and reflections of my first year as a college faculty member. This will include aspects of how my work as a high school teacher prepared me for teaching in college, how my expectations did and did not meet the reality of the work, what I found energizing and difficult about teaching, in what ways demands were joined together or in conflict, what I found to be key elements in interacting with students and other faculty members, where I successfully and unsuccessfully managed time, how I asked for help, and how I responded to calls to “volunteer.” |
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Chemistry Pedagogy 101
1:30 PM-3:20 PM, Monday, March 26, 2007 Hyatt Regency McCormick -- 24 A/B, Oral
Younger Chemists Committee |