Course Prep Ideas - Reflection

I made a plan for my course prep back in November 2019. I can’t say that I stuck to it very well, but I did do most of the things I wanted to do. 

 

I sent an intro letter 4 weeks in advance letting students know who I am, the text we would be using and when the first day of class would be. Two weeks later I sent out a more detailed email letting students know the course expectations and additional information about course assignments. I also opened up the class on Blackboard at that time so students could see and download the course Syllabus and access the Welcome - Start Here Module.

 

I was not able to have every week’s lessons planned as I wanted. I wanted to have a VoiceThread lecture for all the required Chapters but fell way behind on doing those readings and recordings. So I am still working on finishing most of them up. This was difficult because I was making all the slides from scratch after reading each chapter of the text so I knew it would be time consuming.

 

Although I made a plan for myself for my course prep, the end of the semester turned out to be crazy (as usual) so I was already backed up when break began. One lesson I learned from this is to not try to make lofty goals while school is still in session, or to give myself longer to accomplish them. Also, it was a little over ambitious to try to make all my slides from scratch. I had some slides from a colleague that I could have used but figured since I had to read the chapters anyway, why not just make my own slides. Outside of that, my course prep went pretty well. Next time I teach this course I won’t have to do so much prep in relation to developing slides, so hopefully it will go much smoother.

 

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