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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

Faculty Focus

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments.

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I’m An Adjunct: What Do I Need to Know About Teaching? 

Faculty Focus

I was handed a syllabus, a classroom, and students, and left to figure out the rest on my own. In preparing that first course, I focused on what I thought were the essentials of teaching: finalizing the syllabus, picking the readings, and writing the assignments.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

Scholarly Teacher

What does the language in the syllabus/assignment assume about students (e.g., In a review of a health professions course syllabus, student partner Jean Genie wrote: Have you considered [.] Deficit thinking and Hispanic student achievement: Scientific information resources. Problems of Education in the 21st Century , 15 , 41–48.