ORIENT: 10-week term?

[Peter Hendriks]

I think the idea would be to still have 13 weeks of semester, but to  
not have lectures for one of those weeks. I currently do this for my  
Japanese linguistics courses, and during that one week students have  
group projects to work on—using what they have learned so far to  
analyse 'real' data. I encourage them to use the lecture and tutorial  
times for meeting for the projects, and make myself available at those  
times too in order to help out.

Regards,

Peter (who is not afraid of the number 13)


On 29/05/2008, at 9:37 AM, Shun Ikeda wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Are you suggesting a 12-week (teaching week) semester?
>
> Shun Ikeda
> -----------
> On 29/05/2008, at 9:25 AM, Roald Maliangkay wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I very much like McComas's idea; it would also be a nice thing for
>> the students to look forward to after our mid-term exams which we
>> could then organise at the end of the 6-week period. He has my vote
>> (and so does Pedro).
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Roald
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 29/05/08 9:16 AM, "McComas Taylor" <McComas.Taylor at anu.edu.au>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Colleagues
>>>
>>> I am also very concerned about the 10-week stretch next semester
>> - what
>>> about a CAP-wide non-teaching week (say, week 6?) to give
>> everyone a bit
>>> of a break.
>>>
>>> McC
>>>
>>> Kent Anderson wrote:
>>>> Dear Colleagues:
>>>>
>>>> This is an email from a colleague in Law.  It raises and
>> interesting issue.
>>>> It would be good to think about it in our individual
>> circumstances, maybe
>>>> around the coffee machine and corridors, and email chatter.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers.
>>>>
>>>> kent
>>>>
>>>> ___________________________
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>>>> Director, Faculty of Asian Studies
>>>> ANU College of Asia-Pacific and ANU College of Law
>>>> The Australian National University
>>>> Canberra, ACT 0200
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>>>>
>>>>>>> Daniel Stewart 05/28/08 12:28 pm >>>
>>>>>>>
>>>> Colleagues,
>>>>
>>>> The second teaching and learning forum for this year is on
>> tomorrow, 29/5
>>>> from 1-2 in the Moot Court 3rd floor (note change of venue).
>> Vanilla Bean
>>>> wraps and sandwiches will be provided.
>>>>
>>>> The topic for this week is managing the 13 week semester:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Second semester this year is split into 10 and 3 teaching weeks,
>> and some
>>>> staff members have suggested that they intend to split their
>> undergraduate
>>>> teaching up with a lecture free week to try to better manage
>> workloads across
>>>> the 10 weeks.  Should we take a College wide approach?  Are
>> there alternative
>>>> ways to manage workloads, both for ourselves and our students,
>> across what
>>>> can be a long semester?
>>>> Possible issues for discussion:  managing workloads over a
>> semester,
>>>> including
>>>> - How do we currently use the 2 week mid semester lecture break
>> in our
>>>> teaching?  Is it for assessment? Extra reading? Chance to take a
>> break?
>>>> - Trying something different: how to break things up without
>> confusing and
>>>> losing the students
>>>> - How much to do before, during and after each class: or why we
>> need the
>>>> break as much as our students?
>>>> Preparation:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do you currently approach public holidays?  Do you schedule
>> a make-up
>>>> class?  Wait to see whether you can make up the time in other
>> ways?  What
>>>> does this say about the 13 week, 39 (or 52) hours of contact
>> time teaching
>>>> model?
>>>> For those unable to attend any responses to these questions or
>> the issue of a
>>>> teaching free week are welcome, by email to me or otherwise.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> _______________________
>>>>
>>>> Daniel Stewart
>>>> Director, Teaching and Learning
>>>> ANU College of Law
>>>>
>>>> Building #5
>>>> The Australian National University
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>>>>
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Peter Hendriks
Japan Centre
Faculty of Asian Studies
College of Asia and the Pacific
Baldessin Precinct Building
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200 Australia

Director, Centre for Research on Language Change
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