Teaching Takes Time

Why does it take me so long to prepare a lecture?!? Today, I read that one common mistake of new faculty is to spend too much time preparing to teach. Some spend upwards of 26 hours a week preparing for lectures. The recommended time allocation is one and a half hours of prep time for every hour teaching. I can't even fathom that. It takes me 5 or 6 hours to prepare for one hour of lecturing! Grrr!! I want to know why I'm so slow. It's not like I'm trying to be thorough, I'm just trying to present the material in a way that is not presented in the book so that students can hear something new. But, it just takes me way too long. Grrr!!!