Graduate students and faculty teaching their first course will find this recent post from Tomorrow’s Professor a quick and interesting read. It offers practical advice on how to set up your class for success from day one, and gives advice on how to balance teaching with research responsibilities. It’s important to have balance in our careers, and advance planning is one part of it. Although everything about teaching a class can’t be planned in advance, the more advance planning you can do, the smoother your semester will be.
