Book Review: Confessions of a Teacher Or, How to Be a Part-Timer
Put on your seatbelt when you decide to sit down and read, Confessions of a Teacher Or, How to Be a Part-Timer, by Mary Allen Redd. You’re about to experience an unfiltered, daringly bold and outspoken treatise about the experience of…
Herb Childress Thinks Working Off the Tenure-Track is a Kind of Abusive Relationship
According to Childress, this addiction-abuse cycle is killing the profession. I would argue that "the profession" is just fine, thank you. The self-proclaimed core of profession which consists of administrators, tenure-line and tenured…
Did SEIU Break the Rules to Organize Non-Tenured Faculty at Elon U?
In a letter to faculty and staff, Elon Provost Steven House outlined the allegedly unethical actions SEIU organizers took since they first arrived on campus in January 2018 — all with the intention of influencing the election, the…
Book Review: The Power of Blended Learning in the Sciences
Chapter 6 reminds the reader about the memory process and how easy it is for students to forget what they just learned as they carry on in other classes and about their days. Instructors need to help students retain information. This…
Essential Time Management Tips For Teaching Faculty: The Agenda
The most important time-saver that I have is the agenda; it's similar to a lesson plan. Some of my classes meet once per week, some twice, or three times per week. Thanks to my use of agendas, I have a 4-hour course, plus grading and…
Using iMovie to Help Students More Deeply Engage With a Text
I’ve been teaching a long time. I remember the days when I was the young teacher bringing technology to the classroom, but now I’m the old coot in the corner with her arms crossed. That is, until my young colleagues demonstrated an iMovie…
Book Review: The Professor Is In—The Essential Guide to Turning Your Ph.D. into a Job
The Professor Is In first focuses on the ways in which landing a full-time job at a college or university have changed over the years. One of the most useful parts of the book, and one for which you’ll want your highlighter, are the steps…
How to Improve Your Student Evaluations
The very idea of student evaluations of teaching can spell terror for professors, but particularly adjunct faculty whose continued employed rests on the quality of the students' evaluations. This continues to be done despite the fact that…
Book Review: Teaching Strategies & Techniques for Adjunct Faculty, 6th ed.
The book uses bullet points, lists, infographics, and is organized beautifully. It is a pleasure to read, and it can be read in one sitting. The author uses the latest research to support many of the theories he espouses. I was impressed…
Five Easy Ways to Integrate Active Learning into Your Classroom
Students learn more if they are provided with opportunities to participate actively in the learning process, whether it is group discussion, flipped assignments, in-class practice or application.