One of the things I loathe about summer school: no office hours. I’m teaching three classes back-to-back-to-back and I don’t have five danged minutes to meet with students. No time to go over papers with them, no time to meet to chat. I try and get to my office early before my 8:00AM class, which is the one time I can set aside, but that’s awfully early for many of my students — especially those who don’t have my class until the afternoon.
Query: anyone work at an institution where summer school profs have office hours? I feel as if my students are getting short-changed as they don’t get the access to me that kids do during the regular semesters. On my own time, I can squeeze in five minutes here or there, but it’s tough to make up.
I always used to have office hours. That was left up to me.
i just went through that with my math class, he usually ended up being swarmed at the beginning, break, and after. in a way it was good because it forced us (my classmates and I) to rely on each other. then it kinda sucked because the people i had to rely on were arrogant, self-serving geeks who ended up with better grades then me. pleg
i’m quite sure you know the solution to this problem; email!!!
It’s no different at any of the schools I teach. I’m expected and required to have the same number of office hours in the summer. I’ve never had more than 12 hours a week of in-class teaching at any point in summer, however, so finding time for them isn’t a problem. I truly love teaching, but if I taught your courseload year in and year out I’d have burnt out a long time ago.
By which I mean “no different than any other term”