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

Faculty Focus

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. You could also integrate videos or podcasts into your course materials, in addition to assigning readings. Encourage student participation. How might this work?

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

Faculty Focus

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. You could also integrate videos or podcasts into your course materials, in addition to assigning readings. Encourage student participation. How might this work?

Teaching 111
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Scenes From College Classes Forced Online By COVID-19

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Which again, from a teaching perspective, is an interesting piece that you don’t normally have when you teach students at a university setting. For me, the biggest challenge that this format presents is that consistent feedback loop, and especially sort of the mini-loops that exist in teaching.

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Bring Experts to Your Class Easily with Nepris

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Teachers can assign videos to their classes with the new ‘Assignment’ function. What a great opportunity to teach perspective-taking, as students observe classes around the world participating in the same event they are, asking questions that are relevant to their world. This is great for flipped classrooms.