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What makes a good teacher? I am sure that people who work in education have precise metrics for what effective teaching means. I am not an education scholar, but I do teach, so doing it well is important to me (and to most of the readership, I am sure). I am at a research university, which
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‘Tis December!!! Phew. I must admit, posting every day in November has been tough, which was probably obvious from some of the less-than-inspired posts. When you start photographing produce, you know you are scraping the bottom of the blog-fodder barrel. I think last year’s November blogging was easier, I am not sure why. I don’t remember
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The long Thanksgiving weekend has been filled with mom stuff. Fun, chores; laughter, whining. My valiant plans to do work (grade midterm! edit student papers! review manuscripts!) did not materialize. When will I finally give up these silly ideas and stop planning to do work during weekends or holidays? When it becomes possible to go home without feeling
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Parents of grown children always say that you’re supposed to enjoy the period when the kids are little, and that the teenage years are much harder. As all new parents, I thought my experience would somehow be different. I just knew my kids’ infant years were the hardest ever, and that I would do such a good job
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Thanksgiving is a slow time in the blogosphere. I have been fighting a headache all day, so I have very little to give here. But, a promise to blog daily in November still stands, so… Why is it so hard to get a teenager to go to bed, even though he knows intellectually that he’ll
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We went to some friends’ from work for a Thanksgiving party. The food was good and abundant. I must say I didn’t have a great time, and I take full responsibility for it. Actually, I can’t remember the last time I had fun at a party. People do invite us, and we either go or don’t
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Call this an experimental post: I give myself 15 min, and I write whatever I write. When the timer goes off, I stop, edit very lightly, and publish. Here goes. 1. I am reading “Bad Feminist” and enjoying it for the most part. I will have to reconsider my deep love for semicolons. Roxane Gay does
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To take a break from academia, here’s some lighter blogging fare: stuff that I have shazammed in recent weeks while listening to my favorite radio station. Enjoy!
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Long-time readers know that I passionately hate it when people with whom I share a fleeting interaction cannot curb their rudeness and curiosity enough to stop themselves from either inquiring about or making stupid assumptions about my origins. This post has been brought to you by the three separate incidents that happened between Thursday and today. This is
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I am at a major public research university. Sure, this is a university and teaching is important, for some definitions of important; anyone who says that research does not beat teaching to a pulp is a liar. Bringing in extramural funding is the most important metric in most STEM fields. It translates into overhead dollars for the university. It also
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