In a week I will have forty new students staring at me with their (around) eighty eyes as they (ostensibly) prepare to use their (hopefully) forty brains. In other news, people use parentheses relatively infrequently and I'm worried they feel shunned.
I've adjusted back to life in Milwaukee. My course documents are nearly completed and I've begun lesson planning for the first unit. Having taught the course before is proving very helpful. I know what I've done before, what I liked about it, and what I want to change. Right now, the major challenge is switching from teaching MWF to a longer TTh class period. Next week I'm sure there will be a different challenge.
TAO is in full swing. As an experienced TA, I have a small group to whom I am responsible for explaining a unit of RC1 - otherwise known as the class I taught only once and which I do not plan to teach again. It's an amusing situation, but I am being paid so I went back through my records, reviewed what I did with the unit, and talked about it with my small group.
Studying for the MA exam has gone well during the week I haven't been in school. I need to remember to study for it during the semester as well. Focus.
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