Imagine the preparation for a 1 hour class, we need at least 3 hours for the preparation. Then imagine the preparation for a 3 hour class, the time required could triple. I am not in a very difficult situation which is to prepare for a 16 hour class starting tomorrow (Saturday and Sunday) for this Master Environmental Management Pesisir under the Master Safety MKKH Program. To be honest, this is the first time I will be teaching this class but I believe I am capable of teaching it. I just need to really prepare and design the class which will be conducted via online mode and it ain’t easy to have an online class for such a long duration.
My experience moderating the forum last Wednesday for a straight 3 hours really made me super exhausted and few moments after that I slept for 3 hours plus before 8pm to recover my energy.
Back to the preparation of my class, I will design the class appropriately so everybody will benefit and enjoy the class, InsysAllah. I’m planning to conduct a research for this class simultaneously, which I haven’t planned yet (at the point I write this, but I have some idea).
The preparation of class is not the main thing going on today. There are still plenty of tasks that I need to pause, or if I can squeeze my time and energy, I will do it. I have FRGS improvement and documents to prepare, journal manuscript to submit which was already long pending, a book which I co-handle with a senior colleague to edit and do a bit of final touch edition (that I promised to complete this weekend). But then, those are not the only thing going to happened. Just now, as early as 8am in my weekend break, I already had a phone call to interview a candidate who wanted to appoint me as his mentee to be a professional engineer. Subsequently I joined a Zoom meeting on Mathwork Process Control problem lead by Prof Khairiyah that combines UTM, USM and UMP.
It’s pretty tricky that the older we became, the more matured we be, the more tasks and responsibility we aught to be given. We just need to be wise and intelligent in balancing all official tasks, in official tasks, community contribution, spiritual and family. The family is being mentioned last, but it is the highest priority in actual fact.
OK, all the best to me… 🙂
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/Â
