But 19 years of Part time teaching. Good prime number, eh?
770 students completed courses I taught. I don't have numbers for a bell curve... but I would speculate the curve is weighted to 3.5 & 4.0 students.
Lots of funny stories from classes.
I learned a lot from teaching... probably why I continued to teach so long. For anyone that knows... especially for part timers. It certainly wasn't for the $$. 😜
But I already had a FT job and I was just looking to teach "hobby-wise".
Early on, if there was an opportunity - I might have considered FT... but I started to learn what the FT folks had to do, in addition to required minimum 5 class sessions... and that was not attractive to me. It was not teaching... it felt more like bookkeeping / management - and I swore that off after jobs like that in early 1990's.
The goal of any educational facility is to educate students.
Unfortunately - all the other connections providing the $$ require their paperwork "proof" that is happening. The result is obscene amount of staff needed for the "proof" and time to do that work.
There must be a better way... but I'm not the person to figure that out.
My husband's college got rid of staff and paid for computer packages that the faculty now have to fill out instead of having staff to do that work. Of course, no training so lots of problems.
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