I don’t teach on Thursdays, and early in the semester made the decision that I would spend that day working on things that don’t relate to teaching: research, when possible, but thus far mostly job market stuff (and not incidentally, most blog posts have been on Thursdays). I’ve stuck to that, generally, though I’m sure
I give reading quizzes in my classes, at least those classes that consist mostly of freshman and sophomores, or survey classes where part of the point is to read widely. Quizzes provide students with an incentive to do the reading, and they give me a sense of how manageable it is, and what parts of
Some of the concerns I had, coming to a new college, were about grades. Would student expectations be different? Would I find grading for three classes overwhelming? Would I grade too hard, or too easy? Would students complain about grades? I lucked out, a little bit, in that two of my classes are very small: