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1. Advice for New Faculty Members
Robert Boice. (2000)

2. Eight Rules for Working at
Teaching with Moderation

3. Rule no. 1: Wait
 Pause before Writing or Talking to Reflect.
 Use pauses playfully and planfully.
 Put some of what you think into writing.
 Active waiting is an alternative to
impatience

4. Rule 2: Begin Before Feeling
Ready
 No one feels ready especially:
procrastinators, perfectionists, elitists,
blockers, and oppositionals.

5. Rule #3: Prepare & Present in
Brief, Regular, Sessions
 Avoid binges of over-preparation
 working under pressure & excitement
leads to hypomania, sadness, disinterest
and inefficiencies.
 Begin before feeling fully ready

6. Rule #4: Stop!
 Stop in a timely manner.
 This reduces impatience and intolerance.
 Rushed teaching is poor pedagogy.
 Leave time at the end of class for all sorts of
loose ends.

7. Rule #5: Moderate over attachment to
content & overreaction to criticism
 Rely on brief notes for lecture and
discussion. Make them into overheads
 make only a few main points in class &
convey them patiently, with carefully
chosen examples and discussions.
 Remember that good teaching, like
research, is provisional.
 Practice early evaluation.

8. Rule #6: Moderate Negative
Thinking
 Myths about genius, artistry, great
inventors and brilliant teachers make us
feel pedestrian and inadequate.
 Remember that the other side of teaching
is learning.

9. Rule #8: Let others do some of
the work.
 Let go of some control and credit.
 Use of peers & mentors to talk & share.
 Collaborate in classroom teaching.
 observe and critique colleagues’ classes.
 Invite them to do the same for you.

10. Rule #9:
Moderate Classroom Incivilities
 Causes:
 too much material at too fast a pace at too
difficult a level for student involvement.
 Content remains abstract, irrelevant.
 Professor can’t relate to average student.
 We care more for teaching than learning.

11. Incivilities: prevention
 Teach with compassion, openness, and
patience.
 Communicate with immediacy &
comprehension and pacing.
 Remember your role as a reinforcer of high
standards - of respect for learning and for
others.

12. Conclusion
 “Physics is experience, arranged in
economical order” (Ernst Mach)
 So is teaching.
 Best wishes
 contact me at tdc@uregina.ca or 585-5284.