So If I were building a class, a couple of things I would include
I would include management theory, what business management has to teach us about motivation.
One of my precepts here is, the hardest thing I have to do is have to motivate my students
there has been tremendous work done in the feild of management for motivation
some opportunities to observe classes, but if that's not possible, I would just have have a new adjunct,
encourage them to spend as much time talking to a veteran teacher as possible.
because if you just sit and talk, and you learn from the experiences that they have, they can tell you where the pitfalls are
a veteran teacher can tell you things that you may have never considered, and its a shame to waste that knowledge and experience
but also I think training is ongoing, I believe in continual training.
I think a nice thing to do for adjuncts in particular are lunch'n'learns, so getting us together if possible to do the lunch'n'learns
Or even putting them online, and building a video repository of some of the lectures
So this is how we deal with a disciplinary problem, and let us go back and watch them at our own leisure, let us take the training.
when we can do it. One of the greatest advices though that could be given to a new adjunct is leverage the experinece
you already have, leverage, if you're a leader in industry, if you work in an office, if you're manager in your day job,
leverage that experience, figure out how best to use that experience.
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