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Five Reasons the First Week Is Not Like the Rest

If you’ve taught before, or even just been a student before (which I trust all ProfHacker readers have been), you know that the first week of the semester (or quarter) is not like the rest of the weeks...

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End-of-the-semester Review

The fall semester is coming to a close. Your students are (hopefully) reviewing their semester’s work to prepare for final exams and papers. And the value of review extends on to faculty. Take some...

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Dealing with beginning-of-the-semester absences

“Dear professor, I’m sorry I won’t be able to attend any class sessions during the first week of the semester. I’ve got [insert official school function] going on.” “Doc, My flight from [insert...

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From the Archives: New Semester, New Year

The start of each new semester and academic year offers lots of new possibilities, as well as memories and echoes of past events and experiments. ProfHacker’s series of open letter posts are...

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Prepare, for the End (of the Semester) is Near

You know it’s coming. You’ve been through it before. But that doesn’t make it any easier. I’m talking about the end of the semester. Or, not exactly the end — but the week or two leading up to the...

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Time Travel to Plan Your Semester

Whether your institution requires early submission of your syllabus and course materials, or whether you just have to have to be ready for that first day of class, if you are teaching this fall, you...

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From the Archives: Start Your Semester Off Right

Beginning-of-semester and end-of-semester posts are something of a ProfHacker tradition, as well as the setting of resolutions for the new season. (See, for instance, last year’s From the Archives:...

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How Will You Wrap Up Summer?

The academic summer season has less to do with the solstice and equinox than with the academic calendar and the changes in population, traffic patterns, building hours, professional duties, and...

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