By Kathy McBrayer, M.Ed., SPHR I won the Mother of the Year award this month. Yes, it's true — my neighbor officially posted on my Facebook wall that I earned the award for spending Mother's Day, 2011, at Six Flags Over Texas with my husband and...
Tyler Junior College in East Texas serves 12,000 students. According to the JC's web site, 250 of its 456 faculty are full-time. For some odd reason, the part-time faculty are.
Tyler Junior College in East Texas serves 12,000 students. According to the JC's web site, 250 of its 456 faculty are full-time. For some odd reason, the part-time faculty are.
By Kat Kiefer-Newman We talk about breaking news. We talk about local events and history. We talk about politics, cultural issues, and contemporary problems. We talk about the economy, the state of college education, and future goals. Many will share personal experiences and worries. And we...
By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer, I teach a number of Composition courses and although each one has a slight variation given the deptartmental's academic desires for its students, my.
I recently wrote about wordriver (and my ambivalence regarding it). This week I'd like to touch on a markedly different publication, Kairos. Kairos is subtitled "A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology,.
By P.D. Lesko "Do teachers matter or are teaching methods more important?" That's the question posed by AdjunctNation.com writer Melissa Miller in her entry this week. On the AdjunctNation Facebook page, Georgia NeSmith wrote in response to Miller's piece, "Of course the teacher matters. The good...
By Nancy A. Walker, Ph.D. How do online instructors maintain consistent teaching at the doctoral level? Are there tricks, tips, special formulas? There are proven methods that aid instructors in.
By Bruce A. Johnson, Ph.D., MBA When you consider the importance of building strong working relationships with your students, how important is the element of trust and is it necessary.
By Randy Eldridge "Can I help you?" the young lady sitting at the colorfully decorated table asked me when I first walked into the building. It was my first night teaching at this particular school. I had only been there two previous times for interviews and paperwork,...
