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[Liz]

I also put my research hours on the schedule outside my door, so that people know I'm unavailable. I have colleagues who actually turn off the lights to their office and work with a small lamp so that nobody will realize they are there working. I prefer to hide out at the library.

[TBD]

Don't have a lot of sympathy for you.  Managed to produce quite a lot on 3-3 and 4-4 loads, including during my first year.

[DDR]

Yes.  But don't be too hard on yourself.  Make sure you do good preps for your classes, because then you'll have that much less work in the next years, and the pubs will really start rolling.  Most colleagues will understand that you will need a year to transition and get used to teaching and grow into your new role.  If you can just get something done, however small, that's okay.  Much more important to start thinking about your first summer after your first year...that's when the good research starts to happen.

[TBD]

I admit I was a little harsh directly above.  What I did was get a three day schedule:  M-W-F.   Fortunately our meetings were always on W.  I'd do all of my teaching related stuff at school-- including grade.  I'd work at home on T-Th-Sunday (4-5 hours at least on each of those days.)  I'd take Saturday off.  

When I got to my current campus, I started taking Sunday off too, although I was not as yet tenured.  With tenure now, I do most of my writing during summers and at Christmas.  

Don't spend too much time on teaching.  This is a common mistake.  You can do a great class using a medium level of detail.

[voice of reality]

soontobefirstyear wrote:

> All of my colleagues who graduated last year and had any
> teaching loads at all have been telling me that I will not be
> able to get anything done other than teaching.  I'm not ready
> to give up yet.  

It doesn't matter what you want. You will spend most of your time preparing for teaching. If you think you're going to get any serious research done, then you are in for a very, very rude awakening.


>
> Has anyone been able to accomplish any actual research while
> teaching first year on the t-t?
>

no.

> If so, how?
>

mute point.

> I'm at a 2/2 with high teaching standards, no TA, middling
> students, and small class size in the social sciences-- but I'm
> interested in hearing from all situations and fields.


forget doing research. just forget it.

[not impressed]

Liz wrote:

> I have taught a 4/4 since the start of my career about a decade
> ago and still have manged to present every year at major
> conferences

of course you do. Don't you know EVERYBODY on this forum

1. only presents at major conferences. Indeed, only at the TOP conferences in their field

2. only publishes in top journals



> and publish more than 20 articles and reviews.


20 articles in a decade? I had far more than that when I went up for tenure...
(and I'm in physics)

[moot point]

voice of reality has presented a moot point... perhaps it would have been better had it actually been mute

[TBD]

*I* only had 19.  Nah...nah...

[econ_anon]

*bump*

I would like more information on strategies to get research done too!