Every semester, I write new syllabuses (syllabi? Silly-bye?), and every semester I have to talk myself down with the following reminder:
1) you can't cover everything
2) the harder you try to cover everything, the less service you'll do to anything
3) you can go back and change it later
This is just a heads-up to any instructors who, like me, are spending time right now trying to get their courses together and are flipping out over making sure every detail is perfect. Let's all take a deep breath and a step back.
Trust the students to do the work and to do it generously. Approach it like a game, treat it like fun, and it will be fun. Treat it like a prenuptial agreement, and it's going to provide all the joy of a root canal.
Tomorrow I'm going to spend some time blogging here to remind myself that this can be a really exciting part of the school year. PROTIP: D&D and Syllabus design are actually *really similar*
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