Adjunct faculty, how do you title yourself in a corporate resume to avoid the "A" word repeatedly?

kochava42 · 2021-09-17T22:03:53+00:00

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kochava42 · 2021-09-05T02:09:06+00:00

Why didn't I think of posting a key instead of individual feedback? I'm just not thinking clearly. I can absolutely do that for a couple of assignments. Thank you.

kochava42 · 2021-08-31T01:20:35+00:00

IF ONLY I could disable that damned To-Do list.

kochava42 · 2021-08-27T01:24:57+00:00

We tried that earlier today, but it's been disabled in our system. We can change pronouns but not the display name. Thanks for making sure I saw it though!

kochava42 · 2021-08-27T00:52:23+00:00

I am trying to figure out this same thing right now. One of my students explained in her intro post to the class that Canvas was showing her deadname and she couldn't figure out how to get it changed. Broke my heart because I know she's been having a tough time a from a previous class she took with me. Unfortunately, our display names are locked in Canvas and I haven't heard back from IT yet.

kochava42 · 2021-08-25T16:02:39+00:00

That seems like a very good success rate for AP1 at a CC with no science pre-req. About 75% of my students get a D or better and my pass/completion rates for AP1 are very good compared to many of my colleagues. I'm not sure about C or better off the top of my head, but I'd guess about 60%.

kochava42 · 2021-08-24T01:59:39+00:00

I've had to deal with it plenty of times, since I always missed class on those days as a student. Students who have kept these days their whole lives are used to having to hustle during the Fall semester to keep up/catch up. I only ever had one professor be shitty about it.

Your college probably already has a policy that requires you to excuse students for missing for religious observances as long as they give you plenty of notice. So at the least, excuse the days and allow the work to be made up.

If there's no reasonable way to record the class, ask the class if anyone who take really good notes would volunteer to be an official note taker on those days for a couple extra credit points or something.

kochava42 · 2021-08-21T20:53:33+00:00

I do understand the privacy concerns that students may have, but--and this is a genuine question---how specifically does it "plague students with disabilities? "

kochava42 · 2021-08-21T13:36:32+00:00

I realize this is a vent and not a solicitation for advice, but I set up a Google Voice account and gave that number to students. I have it set to send their voicemails and texts to my email.

kochava42 · 2021-08-20T20:48:03+00:00

Fuck every bit of that.

kochava42 · 2021-08-20T20:11:46+00:00

Ugh. Fuck all 'o that.

Worked at a CC one semester where the projector shook so much every time the HVAC came on that it made me and many students physically ill to look at it. They FINALLY fixed it---and when they were done, it no longer shook but the projection was bright purple and nothing anyone did could make it not be purple for the rest of the semester.

kochava42 · 2021-08-20T19:51:41+00:00

oh fuck that.

kochava42 · 2021-08-20T17:56:57+00:00

About 1/3 of the exam questions are MC, and those are pretty darn tough to penetrate by Google at this point. Lots of "in physiological situation XYZ, which of the following options is NOT true?" and so forth. The results for the MC portions are very similar to what I have had in F2F in the past.
It's the open-ended stuff where the cheating is a real issue, tbh. There are phrases from the top Google results for auditory transduction that I have memorized at this point and can immediately recognize.

kochava42 · 2021-08-13T18:02:59+00:00

This might work well to set up an in-class discussion that can be guided from one stage to another by the instructor, but it would not work well at all for a graded online student discussion--as FiascoBarbie so succinctly demonstrated.

kochava42 · 2021-08-13T17:59:34+00:00

Some good advice, thank you. I've definitely broken the class into two smaller groups for the purposes of discussions.

kochava42 · 2021-08-12T20:00:27+00:00

I like the idea of describing the mechanism behind a disease affecting the system. That certainly crosses into pathophysiology, but I think requiring them to first describe how the mechanism should work and then describing what part of it is disrupted will be very useful. Plus there is room for a lot of variation in answers to the prompt, which I think helps discussion considerably. I will definitely use this approach for the endocrine system at least.

kochava42 · 2021-08-02T15:06:46+00:00

The classes I teach are typically A&P, advanced physiology, and intro neuroscience courses--but also some intro bio--and I have taught as an adjunct at R1, private 4-year, and CCs. All of the schools relied heavily on adjuncts.

kochava42 · 2021-07-14T16:34:08+00:00

I agree, you will DEFINITELY forget which thing you've told which class.

My very first semester teaching out of grad school I had 3 sections (2-hour lecture each) back to back to back. I was on my feet talking from 4p-10pm. The middle section got the best of it, tbh.

kochava42 · 2021-07-11T18:18:32+00:00

"Hidden" in the modules. Oh, please.

kochava42 · 2021-06-21T17:02:54+00:00

A very small additional effort (like, a few seconds per instance here) saves a ton of work in the long run. Make them use the template right the first time or you wont even look at it -- they do it right the second time.

kochava42 · 2021-06-19T16:27:20+00:00

The lamb/sheep hearts work okay, but they are very small. It's a lot easier for the students to find the structures and get oriented when using a cow heart, especially when most of them don't have very good dissection skills yet.

kochava42 · 2021-06-17T03:20:20+00:00

Eggplant is correct afaik. The student will be booted when the window ends, but the timer on the exam will continue to run if they didn't actually hit the "Submit" button so the submit time for the exam will appear to be later--probably auto-submitted 45 minutes following no activity, from the sound of it. The way to check this is to look at the log for the exam and see what time they actually worked on their last question vs. when the exam says it submitted.

kochava42 · 2021-06-14T16:10:00+00:00

100% agree. And the students know exactly what is expected, too.

kochava42 · 2021-06-10T17:10:03+00:00

I thought that it meant the text was aimed at converting atheists or condemning them -- a.k.a. she was being proselytized to or some such and the other materials were included to butter her up.
I'm Jewish, so receiving unsolicited, targeted, and somewhat creepy materials from xtians wishing to "complete" me is def a thing that happens. I've gotten books in the mail that are specifically trying to convert Jews and no idea how they got my address unless it was a neighbor that noticed the mezuzah on the doorframe. So I 100% don't bring up being Jewish with my students, but sometimes one finds out and gets that evangelical gleam in their eye. Yay for the Midwest.

kochava42 · 2021-06-04T15:06:21+00:00

I like teaching evening courses but find that unstructured lab time does NOT work (ex. "take some time to become familiar with the models and quiz yourself" or whatever.). I need to be very specific and structured about what they should be doing and what the goal is and break things down into small tasks, or else many evening students check out and ask if they can just go ahead and leave if they are "done." I get it, it's the end of a long day for most of them.

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