tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post2217113401179851529..comments2024-01-15T03:36:11.777-05:00Comments on Teaching Game Design: One Myth About TeachingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-82019957137503747512009-01-03T13:42:00.000-05:002009-01-03T13:42:00.000-05:00There is a good analysis of whether university fac...There is a good analysis of whether university faculty are overpaid or not at <A HREF="http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=Bmh8vjcn8mjs3KqqzVSffkGvxgfnTd9m" REL="nofollow">The Chronicle</A><BR/><BR/>The conclusion is that nobody with as much education (and experience) earns as little as university professors do. Additional comments <A HREF="http://ramblingonthisandthat.blogspot.com/2008/11/perception-university-professors.html" REL="nofollow">on my blog</A><BR/><BR/>With the economic downturn, people are looking at "secure" jobs with much more envy these days, but the data clearly shows that being a university professors is not the road to financial riches.Yusufhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02661920772654296847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-35094081450728668672009-01-01T12:01:00.000-05:002009-01-01T12:01:00.000-05:00Meg: In my experience, it depends on the class.For...Meg: In my experience, it depends on the class.<BR/><BR/>For classes where the material is constantly changing, you'll probably be doing prep work forever. For classes where the experience is more or less the same from year to year, yes, it gets easier. (But if you do it right, prep work should never drop to zero -- each time you teach a class you'll learn what works and what doesn't and find better ways to explain certain things or you'll want to experiment with adding or removing specific topics or reordering things.)<BR/><BR/>As for "one hour of prep for one hour of instruction"... well, there's a huge range there, too. The best speakers at conferences usually spend 10 to 20 hours preparing for one hour of stage time (granted, the stakes are higher when you're presenting to hundreds or thousands of your colleagues). Still, you can easily spend a lot of prep time, especially if you like to do a couple of dry runs of your lectures to make sure they take about the right amount of time. (I realize that the reality is that there's seldom enough time to do this the first time around, which is why I say you'll probably continue to do prep work for these classes in the future... you build up those amazing presentations incrementally over time, rather than putting in a huge effort up front.)<BR/><BR/>But then, it still depends on the class. For studio classes where you're not teaching so much as supervising student projects, you need practically no prep work at all for the individual classes. So it all depends.Ian Schreiberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03146360375570794401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-51127298527420855672009-01-01T01:42:00.000-05:002009-01-01T01:42:00.000-05:00I find that it takes me at least as long outside c...I find that it takes me at least as long outside class as the lesson is long to prepare. I think that's a new teacher thing, though, and I hope that soon I won't spend an hour prepping for an hour's lecture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30766504.post-196448547878065792008-12-31T06:28:00.000-05:002008-12-31T06:28:00.000-05:00I actually agree. Have some friends teaching and k...I actually agree. Have some friends teaching and know how they work to teach... There is just a wide range teachers and from them I could point some that.<BR/>Work days.<BR/>1. come at work at 9AM and have 2-3 lectures/practical hours till middle of the day.<BR/>2. Then they work on checking works students sent/work with science/prepare for conferences/help Bachelor/Master students with their scientific projects. Do various works for university from paper work till work on recherches that was ordered from outside. <BR/>3. Then somewhere at 6pm second part wave of evening students comes and they have more lectures to tell till 21:30...<BR/><BR/>So it is a work day with 12 hours at work?!?!<BR/><BR/>And some of them even have lectures from 9Am-2Pm at Saturdays for not full time students...<BR/><BR/>So for some it could end up being 65 hours a week spent in university... Yeah not all of those may be working hours but still I could not call them free aether... <BR/><BR/>And then it is like you said at summer vocations... Planing how lectures/practical for next 9 months and doing some side freelance or university work...wonderwhy-erhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698224551055970556noreply@blogger.com