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Proactive or Reactive?
Well, I sent off an application to a community college for a part-time faculty position teaching English composition. Joy. Hopefully, if I do get the job, they'll let me set up the course the way that I want to. I hate teaching to a set syllabus. In my experience so far (and in the experience of many of my cohort), set syllabuses for composition courses frequently never turn out well.
Especially if there are arbitrary mandates like, four essays per term (even though we're on a quarter system of TEN WEEKS), with revisions, drafts, and one-on-one appointments. Good god. No one's paid enough for that kind of work -- especially if they expect the comp instructor to actually TEACH! I mean, how do you help each student in a class of 23 learn to write well in TEN WEEKS with that kind of schedule??? It's insane!
Well, at least community colleges are on semester-systems. That's got to be better for comp classes.
Especially if there are arbitrary mandates like, four essays per term (even though we're on a quarter system of TEN WEEKS), with revisions, drafts, and one-on-one appointments. Good god. No one's paid enough for that kind of work -- especially if they expect the comp instructor to actually TEACH! I mean, how do you help each student in a class of 23 learn to write well in TEN WEEKS with that kind of schedule??? It's insane!
Well, at least community colleges are on semester-systems. That's got to be better for comp classes.