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This week is Spring Break. Well, sort of. No, it is, but not necessarily for me. It's break for some schools, some instructors, some kids, but not…
Piss Poor Prof, also known as Burnt-Out Adjunct, describes the adjunct as being "the academic equivalent of a fry cook." http://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2009/06/15/adjunct Then there is Dr. Burton Fletcher,…
One of the schools I teach for originally had a canned curriculum from which all instructors taught . The content was good overall and obviously written by…
This blog has been geared toward introductory classes and those teaching them, since my assumption is that a blog on teaching tips will be most attractive to…
I love email. I have been using it for over ten years and it has gone from an amusing novelty to one of the most important communication…
I was out walking with a friend last week and the conversation turned, as it often does, to school. She'd just finished her college-level writing class and…
by Jodi Menees I have a friend who teaches online at over 10 institutions and I was shocked when she told me that she does not give…
Recently I dipped in to the January 11, 2010 edition of the world's best magazine, I mean, The New Yorker. There I found "After the Blowup," an…
Folks new to the college experience, whatever their age or pathway, are expecting teachers. The trouble is that teaching is a whole other profession, with a completely…
