Search
Close this search box.

Project Management Tips to Reduce End-of-Term Stress

Credit: iStock.com/skynesher
Credit: iStock.com/skynesher

The end of a term typically brings increased stress to educators. To borrow a term used by Cross and Dillon (2023), stress often “snowballs” throughout the term and then reaches a crescendo at the end. The reasons are varied: exam grading, essay grading, submission of final course grades, student grade appeals, administrative requests, teaching evaluations, and preparations for the next term, to name only a few of the causes of end-of-term stress.


To continue reading, you must be a Teaching Professor Subscriber. Please log in or sign up for full access.

Leave a Reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Related Articles

I have two loves: teaching and learning. Although I love them for different reasons, I’ve been passionate about...
Students often underestimate how much study time is required to master course concepts for an exam (Chew, 2014)....
Education once came through the total immersion technique. The apprentice worked with a master within the profession to...
Whether you teach synchronously online or create asynchronous video content for your students, producing professional-looking material has always...
I didn’t always offer full-throated endorsements of audiobooks in my literature courses. Maybe that’s because I’m not really...
If we’re to believe the conversations around higher education’s proverbial water cooler, our students are coming to us...
It’s always disheartening to peek at a student’s notes after class and discover how far they are from...

Are you signed up for free weekly Teaching Professor updates?

You'll get notified of the newest articles.