By Jenny Ortiz Martial arts film star Bruce Lee has taught me that to be a good teacher, I have to remain a student. The best place to continue learning has been in the classes I teach. No matter how many times I teach a short story, and...
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By Helene A. Matheny With now ten years of experience teaching as an adjunct, I've faced quite a variety of class formats. From the traditional daytime, twice-a-week course, to an.
By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer, the end of semester always comes with a mountain of paperwork and the hope that my contract is renewed for another term. Given.
[private]By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer, I interact with diverse student populations. It's one of the reasons I love to campus hop. Since I started teaching at three different campuses, I've always wanted to have my different classes interact somehow. Of course it'd be...
By Jenny Ortiz As a Freeway Flyer I've been able to see the diversity not only within a classroom, but within different colleges, as well. When I think of the.
By P.D. Lesko I'm starting to get jealous of AdjunctNation.com's Juggling 101 blogger Kat Kiefer-Newman. Her blog posts are shared and shared and shared on Facebook with a regularity that.
by Jennie Ortiz When I started teaching, my family couldn't understand why I was so adamant about being at work at least an hour before my class started. On remembering her own college experiences, my mother mentioned that professors would be the last ones to...
by Jenny Ortiz A a Freeway Flyer, I've been given some tough time slots to teach. Currently I have a 7 in the morning business writing class at St. John's.
by Jenny Ortiz When it comes giving a negative message, Gerald Alred cites Francis Weeks in saying, "to be completely direct and forthright, striking to the heart of the matter.
By Jenny Ortiz It's no secret that as a society, we get our basic legal information from the television show "Law & Order." When I interact with students, most cite this show along with "CSI," "NCIS" and "House" as their favorites because they're based on...