By Melissa McDonald I like to keep busy. Teaching semester-after-semester keeps the momentum going, but then something happens that forces me to sit out for a semester or more. Usually, we move. As I mentioned in my blog "Who Gives Up a FT Job to...
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By Kat Kiefer-Newman Last weekend I was dog sitting. A dear friend was heading up the coast for 2 ½ days and needed someone to check in on his Dachshund,.
As we all try to make sense of the state of adjunct faculty, and try to write, it is easy to get caught up in the immediate: to focus on.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. I've noticed that each semester there are a handful of students who really come alive the last two weeks of class! They have been dormant, doing barely enough to pass or not t be withdrawn from the class. They have...
By Rich Russell As an English teacher, no matter how many times you have taught a class, fussed and fretted with the lesson plans like a nervous parent, there will.
By Melissa Miller, Ed.D., M.Ed. Everyone, at some point or another, needs a deadline extension. Most schools have established late policies and each professor is then generally allowed to accept.
I have defended ABC College many times on this blog, despite the fact that many of my colleagues have been unhappy with them. I have never before felt micromanaged and I have never felt pressure to give good grades (common complaints that I have heard)....
I missed a deadline last week. I teach at ABC College, a proprietary school that is well-known for strict faculty grading deadlines, and I missed one. I was aware of.
Over the years I have given a great deal of thought to grading, incentives, and fairness. One anecdote will illustrate what started me on the road to thinking about how.
“C is for competent; it’s good enough for me.” I sometimes sing this little parody of Sesame Street in my head. What this means to me is that, getting through the day without screwing anything up is, in my book, a level of success that...