Wednesday, January 21, 2009
I love big text book companies....
As a student, they suck....I mean, paying $130 for a book only to have a new edition the next year so you couldn't sell it back??? However, now that I'm on the flip side, yeah expensive textbooks! :) I don't actually think I have to teach ACCT after all....of course they have prepared PowerPoint slides, but now they have AUDIO enhanced PowerPoint slides!!! Oh, yes, I get to just play them!!! Let's add in the additional "video clips", course activities, and discussion questions, and there is quite little I need to do! Yeah resources!! Of course, I do need to dumb it all down, but hot damn, this is a time saver!! Looking forward to testing it all out tomorrow! Woop-woop!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
OMFG!
Maybe I didn't need this blog after all. Students aren't SO bad...
Then I picked up additional adjunct positions at a private "college" (using quotation marks loosely). I'm teaching two classes - first year accounting & a freshman seminar. To get to know my acct students and understand their abilities, I gave them a little ungraded quiz on the first night. Three out of nine students defined liability as "insurance". And one answer to define asset was "big butt". Only one student got the 5 math problems correct (as in $15,000= x + $12,000 and 6% of $642 =___). One student didn't know how to use a calculator. Yes, I even handed out a 4 function calcuators to the group. They can text message, but don't know how to use my 4th grader's calculator..... Luckily I was told I only needed to teach 4 chapters in 15 weeks. That does not include the chapter on LIFO, FIFO, and averages. I decided to be adventurous and add that in. Second guessing that decision now.
Then there is the seminar class. I have three that are pregnant (out of the 21 students that actually showed up; out of that 6 are men). One is due in four weeks. Only one has a baby daddy. Four that showed up just registered and weren't on my roster. I have 11 other students that just didn't show up.
On the flip side, I'm teaching a masters level class again and it's awesome. I only have one whack student that got up in the middle of class to go move her car.
Then I picked up additional adjunct positions at a private "college" (using quotation marks loosely). I'm teaching two classes - first year accounting & a freshman seminar. To get to know my acct students and understand their abilities, I gave them a little ungraded quiz on the first night. Three out of nine students defined liability as "insurance". And one answer to define asset was "big butt". Only one student got the 5 math problems correct (as in $15,000= x + $12,000 and 6% of $642 =___). One student didn't know how to use a calculator. Yes, I even handed out a 4 function calcuators to the group. They can text message, but don't know how to use my 4th grader's calculator..... Luckily I was told I only needed to teach 4 chapters in 15 weeks. That does not include the chapter on LIFO, FIFO, and averages. I decided to be adventurous and add that in. Second guessing that decision now.
Then there is the seminar class. I have three that are pregnant (out of the 21 students that actually showed up; out of that 6 are men). One is due in four weeks. Only one has a baby daddy. Four that showed up just registered and weren't on my roster. I have 11 other students that just didn't show up.
On the flip side, I'm teaching a masters level class again and it's awesome. I only have one whack student that got up in the middle of class to go move her car.
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