Part-Time Faculty Quotes Page

As a part-time teacher with a full-time job, I decided last fall that because my daughter had married and my father had moved in with us, I should take a break from teaching for just a bit of R&R.  However,  this semester when a class became available at the last minute, I  found myself accepting it with relief.  A semester spent not learning with and from a group of college students would make for a bleak winter indeed.                                                              ---Eva Whittle, English

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 Instill early in your students' minds the need to actively look for  connections between the information they learn in your class and the  information or concepts in other classes they are taking. They need to see that their college classes work together to form a total picture, a  totally educated and knowledgeable person."
 I often open a class asking if anyone has made any connections so  students will feel free to share. Many do so spontaneously. Some of the most satisfying times I experience in the classroom are when  students voluntarily share a cross-curriculum connection. For example,  when students in my Lit 200 class recently studied Oedipus the King, one  later shared how excited she was to see the connection of "our" king to the Oedipus Complex she was studying in Psychology! And another shared  that he related to Faulkner's “A Rose for Emily” more because he was  currently studying the Post-Civil War era in a history class.
                                                                                                                                                     ---Carole Baum, English