Week 2 Done!

I'm officially exhausted. Teaching 4 days a week is rough. We're definitely making movement in the course, and I'm starting to feel the pressure of fitting an entire linear algebra course in just 5 weeks. I am covering 2 sections of text every day, which amounts to covering 2 chapters a week. Next week is their midterm, and that puts me at the next challenge. I do have the added experience of being an exam writing for a program run through the department, which I've done for the last 2 years. And I was also a worksheet writer during the past two semesters for a program which gave calculus students the opportunity to discuss harder calculus problems than we would cover within the course, so I have some idea of how I should be doing phrasings and even slightly on timing as well. It's just very hard to come up with clever ways to present problems that cover knowledge of the material in a way such that those that know the material will be able to do the problems without much difficulty but those that did not put the work will have a fair amount of difficulty. But then again, it's simply impossible for the students to have a full working knowledge and mastery of the subject material after these quick lectures and limited homework.

I guess we will see. For now, it is the weekend. The midterm exam is written, and I will tackle writing up lectures for Monday-Wednesday another day.