Petr Kuzmic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mark Glickman wrote:
>
>> : 22 hour/week
>> : Indeed it's a half time job (50% appointment, essentially).
>> : So now, $234/week after taxes makes $10.60/hour.
>>
>> Interesting arithmetic... all of our part-time lecturers are efficient
>> enough to spend no more than about 10 hours a week on a class, so, Petr,
>> you've just disqualified yourself by admitting your inefficiency!
[...]
> you might be interested to know that the University of Wisconsin in
> Madison, where I live, regards teaching *one* four-credit class per
> semester to be a 60% work load, which comes out to be about *25* hours
> per week commitment. I believe this is a fair estimation how much it
> takes to teach a large lecture course (200-300 students) at this
> University.
>
> On the other hand, your 10 hour per week figure might be a reflection of
> some fairly aggressive cost saving tactics, rather then what it really
> takes to teach *well* and be a good supervisor.
I suspect that Mark Glickman's figure of 10 hr/wk is the Departmental
Bureaucracy's notion of ``official truth,'' and that Petr Kuzmic's figure
is closer to reality.
When I was in Grad-school, if I allocated only the the Departmental
``officially expected'' amount of time to grading the reports for the
Physics Labs I taught, I would have needed to grade them at the rate of
one per every 1.5 minutes --- hardly enough time to even *read* them,
let alone effectively comment on any errors in them !!! :-(
-- Gordon D. Pusch
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