The First Class!!!

Last night was the night and I lived to tell the tale!

Pretty good class .... pretty god group of students. They are a bit nervous about doing well. Hopefully that will get better over the course of thesemster.

Have to figure out better time management. I didnt get a chance to cover everything i needed to cover. Hopefully next week I will do better.

I think there may be a chance I will survive this semester. I just hope I can cover everything I need to!

First Day - morning before

So ... today is the first day of teaching!!!

hope i am ready. I woke up at 5:00 and am already blogging at 5:30 (I normally sleep to 6:30).

Went to the school last night for a trial run. Found my classroom, my mailbox, and most importantly the copy machine. Printed out a bunch of stuff but still tweaking the syllabus. Hope the copy machine is working tonight!

I hope all goes well tonight ... now i will start looking online for colored chalk. All they give us is white and yellow and I love COLORS

Creating the syllabus

Class starts Wed night. it is now Sunday, 2am

I guess that gives me 66 hrs until I am on.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I am so nervous. Actually its a whole combination of emotions. Nervous, excited, psyched

I found out last Wed that I need to come up with my own syllabus. They had sent me an instructors syllabus and i naively thought i could use that

I spent all day Thursday working on version 1
I spent all morning Friday working on version 2
I spent tonight working on version 3

maybe soon i will be satisfied with what I have. Actually I would have probably just stayed with version 2 except for the typos ... too bad i dont know how to spell

Good thing this is a holiday weekend. I think thats the only way I will be ready on time. I still need to prepare my first lesson.

Hopefully its too early in the semester for anyone to bring in the rotting veggies to throw from the back of the room

Well, time to get back to work (or maybe to sleep)

Orientation Week

So last week was orientation week. Bunch of meetings for new adjunts as well as returning adjuncts (people don't like when you call them old)

I probably asked myself a thousand times over the course of the week what am i getting myself into.

I feel out of place in that room. It seems like everyone there is an experienced educator. Those that have full time jobs outside of the college have full time teaching jobs, or have just retired from full time teaching jobs.

My day job is in software development. No wonder I dont feel like i fit in

One thing i have to say is everyone at this college is REALLY nice and helpful. They really do seem to be there to help us succeed.

We were told about many services available on campus that were created to make our lives easier such as the mentorship program and the copy center.

Even though I am supposed to be the teacher here there is LOTS to learn!

Pre School Jitters

Hello World!

About 2 weeks ago I was hired as an adjunct at a local community college.

I will be teaching introductory Algebra on Monday and Wednesday Evenings

I had one really small teaching experience in the past and thats it.

I decided to start this blog to document my journey and also in the hope that it may help someone in the future who will be placed where I am today.