I got offered another adjunct position for the Fall semester. All of the full-time faculty are coming back and they get first dibs on their preferred timing for classes. David, my boss, asked if I’d be willing to teach a ½ semester course (still 3 credit hours, just condensed inweeks) on Saturdays from 8am to 12pm. Since I still want to teach, already have the materials done for the class, and thought it would give me a nice little break (starting in Oct. instead of Aug) with Nicole coming, I agreed enthusiastically.
When I told my students about next semester's timing last week in my Sales class, they all whined because it was such a bad time. It then dawned on me – who’s going to be awake/sober/motivated enough to come to an 8:00am class on a SATURDAY morning!? I think their predictions will be correct – I’ll probably have a lot of adult students who work full-time in my class and very few, if any traditional undergrads. Not sure how I feel about that.
Other kicker – the semester-long project I had them do (which got rave reviews) will be very challenging to do in an 8 week time period instead of 15 weeks like I did it last semester. The reasoning there is with a 15 week class I could teach them a topic and give them 2-3 weeks after that to get their portion of the project pertaining to that subject together. This class will only allow 1-2 weeks max to compile their work. That’ll be very rough and I suspect the caliber of work I'll get will reflect that. : (
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You are brilliant and will find a way to make your project work!!
Have untraditional students maybe fun for you, plus you can test your teaching mehtods on more individuals...
If it makes you feel any better, I took at Saturday morning class. (It was the only one that fit into my schedule)
I'm sure you'll figure things out. If you need a sitter let me know. :-D
Yeah, I'm sure you'll figure things out - the plus side is that if you've got adults then most of them will probably be more motivated and willing to work harder to get the project done in a shorter amount of time. When I was doing my online classes, I did the one at a time condensed into 4 or 6 weeks - things moved very quickly so we all had to get our butts in gear.
There may, however, be some folks who think that because it's a short class it'll be easier, as it's "easier" to fit into their schedule because it's shorter - these are the folks who'll tend to slack off and drive their group members nuts. Just something to keep in mind...
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