Access

So, after mistakenly assuming that a class would be eaten today by Union Day (which turns out to be on Thursday, leaving my tutorials unaffected), I got my staff access from the University. There's School-level stuff to fix, and my staff email to configure, but that will be mostly for tomorrow. I need to get my work pass paperwork done, as well, this afternoon. 

Relay

A side effect of not having a good pace yet is the domino effect this has on classes following. Whereas, on Mondays, only I follow myself, my second classes on Tuesday and Wednesday are immediately followed. Aside from the mandated (and sensible) finish-ten-minutes-before-the-next policy, which I fear does not get unanimously adhered to, there's also the (usually massive) amount of board wiping and resetting expected - in addition to occasionally cleaning up after careless students. I've had one trip to the lost-and-found, and it's barely been a week.

Nonetheless, this is more than mere courtesy - tutorial classes are often sqeezing as much as they could into the hour or two per week allotted, and these nontrivial tasks need to be budgeted in. Case in point: I've been lucky enough to have no classes ahead of me (so far), allowing me to set up projectors ahead of the designated time.

I always feel pressed for time, but that is mostly to ensure my cogs in the campus machine don't jam up. 

Passing Through

First couple of days trying the new schedule. My pace needs some adjusting, and I need to give a bit more face time. Need to read the material earlier than on the way there.

As usual adjustments must be made, and notes shouldn't be forgotten.

Nomadic Once More

So, while my paperwork is still being processed, I find myself with no staff card or lab space.  This isn't really a worry for me, since I'm doing purely teaching this semester, but this does cause some logistic problems:

• No consultation venue: not likely to cause problems at the moment, since students very rarely consult at the start of the semester.
• No access to rooms: again, not a problem, since the tutorial rooms are open access for classes.
• No log-in: here's a problem, as I cannot use the PCs without one, so this will be the tricky part.  Also, this locks me out of the system software for classroom management.

Either way, used to the nomadic lifestyle.  I'm likely to bring the laptop to work for a few weeks, but it is a bit unwieldy, so hopefully some temporary solution can be devised for the near-future.

... aaaand Back

Almost a six-month hiatus, but I have resettled, albeit hopefully in a fleeting fashion, and after having finally acquired the latest upgrade of status.

For the upcoming semester, I find myself again handling Foundation Mathematics at two different contexts, but now with the addition of heading a lecture/laboratory combo for contextualized Algorithms and Complexity.  This latter should prove to be an interesting counterpoint to previous, individual takes on the programming instruction paradigm, through the prism of a large cohort of hundreds splintered into 50-75 person chunks - the key will be that assessment is somewhat centralized.

Thus, back in the saddle again, so to speak.