{"id":175,"date":"2012-03-19T00:28:05","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2012\/03\/19\/2-easy-steps-to-scheduling-student-appointments\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T00:28:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T00:28:05","slug":"2-easy-steps-to-scheduling-student-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/2012\/03\/19\/2-easy-steps-to-scheduling-student-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Easy Steps to Scheduling Student Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no single student question creates more logistical nightmares than \u201cI can\u2019t make your office hours, is there a time when we can meet?\u201d But fret not my friends, I have a foolproof system to make this a snap.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sociologysource.squarespace.com\/storage\/images\/iStock_HELP.jpg\" alt=\"Help! Pinned on Calendar\" \/><figcaption>Help! Pinned on Calendar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2 id=\"step1:askthemtoemailyou\">Step 1: Ask Them To Email You<\/h2>\n<p>Never schedule a student meeting verbally. Students love to ask you to schedule them in as you are setting up for class, as you are tearing down after, or when they see you somewhere on campus. DON\u2019T DO IT! It\u2019s too easy to double book or forget to write it in your calendar later. Asking your students to be responsible for formally requesting the meeting via email unburdens your memory and provides a paper trail that can help both of you be accountable.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"step2:askthemtogiveyoutheiravailability\">Step 2: Ask Them To Give You THEIR Availability<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cGive me 5 half hour windows during the next few days that are convenient for you to meet with me and I\u2019ll pick the first one I can make.\u201d This simple request puts the onus for scheduling the meeting on your student. It also changes an ambiguous question, \u201cwhen can you meet,\u201d into a focused simple and concrete one.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s all there is to it. Easy to implement &amp; easy to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my colleagues balk at my method because they think it violates some social niceties or makes them seem unavailable. I totally agree, that\u2019s why after asking them for an emailed request with five possible times I say to them something like, \u201cThank you so much for doing this. I know it can seem unreasonable, but this approach helps me keep my appointments straight. I\u2019m really glad you came to me and I look forward to meeting to discuss these.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I love meeting with students. I used to hate it because scheduling meetings and keeping them was a giant bag of stress. With my simple 2 step system it\u2019s easy to make and keep meetings stress free. That last sentence sounds like an infomercial, but I genuinely mean it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no single student question creates more logistical nightmares than \u201cI can\u2019t make your office hours, is there a time when we can meet?\u201d But fret not my friends, I have a foolproof system to make this a snap. Help! Pinned on Calendar Step 1: Ask Them To Email You Never schedule a student meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1982,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30607,30609],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deling-w-large-classes","category-student-relationships"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1982"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/sociologysource\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}