This may help you to gauge the demands of teaching on the Block Plan. For on-line examples of current syllabi, see your host department's website . Students are supposed to be available to you from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., so make use of whatever is at hand which you feel will be germane to the course or will usefully vary the routine. You may want to spend a class day at the college's mountain cabin or, if you plan sufficiently in advance, you may spend several days at the Baca Grande Campus in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. Check with support staff or your department or program chair as far in advance as possible about arranging for transportation and meals.
Students often like to meet with professors, so plan on scheduling ample office hours.
By the end of the first five-seven days of the block, students usually should have been given an assignment and had it graded and returned. Thus they will quickly receive some idea of your grading style and general preferences. Colorado College faculty use a variety of pedagogical strategies, even within a single block. Most combine the instructor's presentation of material in lecture format with discussion and group activities. More importantly, one purpose of the Block Plan is to encourage a seminar-like experience within a conceptual framework conveyed by the instructor.