Sentences with phrase «teaching college freshmen»

If it makes you feel any better, I've been teaching college freshmen for four years, and I still can't handle myself when my supervisor comes in for surprise evaluations.

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You'd never believe how much time I spend with my college freshmen, unteaching them what they've been taught in high school.

I once taught a Great Books course to freshmen honor students at Boston College in which I tried to focus the class on exposing common misconceptions about the classics by going back to the data.

In college, my freshman year roommate was (and still is) a bonafied fashionista who taught me the art of mixing high and low, the wonder that is J Crew, and that your clothes don't have to match (seriously!!

He created the Credit Abuse Resistance Education (CARE) program, which provides free educational materials and marshals a network of bankruptcy judges, lawyers, and trustees to teach high school seniors and college freshmen — a vulnerable demographic — about financial responsibility.

PROTTSMAN: When I taught introductory courses to college freshmen, I encouraged them to think of computer science as refrigerator poetry.

The teaching profession — which traditionally has been white and female — is likely to become even more so, according to a researcher who looked at surveys of college freshmen conducted over 22 years.

(Kindergarten standards, for example, should affect what happens in preschool just as twelfth - grade standards should synch with what gets taught to college freshmen.)

With over a dozen years» experience teaching freshmen in both high school and college, he feels most at home building classes that teach fundamental or preparatory skills and building assignments that trick students into learning more than they thought they could.

Over the past 15 years, Ms. Akano has been a classroom teacher in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades, a teaching assistant for the Freshman Immersion Program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, and an assistant middle school principal.

Tyler Jones, a freshman at Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Va. (and a member of the Educators Rising national student cabinet), adds, «I see Beginning to Teach microcredentials] giving my peers and me a strong foundation in teaching.

In a 2012 policy brief, the Illinois State Board of Education emphasized the need to seamlessly connect high school and college education by streamlining the curriculum taught to high school seniors and college freshmen according to the Common Core.6 Though Illinois encouraged state universities to share with state high schools what kind of material students will be expected to know in their first year of college, nothing indicates that homeschools or private schools would be privy to the same information.

His teaching experience has included transition support for college freshmen at the University of Florida, adjunct professorships in Anatomy & Physiology, Forensic Science, and Anthropology.

For the first time ever, any student anywhere can take top - quality courses online in every major freshman college subject, taught by professors from the most prestigious universities, that lead to full academic credit at 2,900 traditional colleges, such as Purdue, Penn State, Colorado State and the University of Wisconsin - Madison, all absolutely free.

Susannah Clark received her MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Emerson College in Boston, where she also taught creative writing and freshman composition.

If you want to write about what people care about, you must know the people in your audience — single parents looking for a light read, college professors teaching freshmen how to analyze literature, someone mourning the loss of a loved one, or any other audience out there.

I also teach Freshman English at the college level.

As Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Writing Program at Regis College, he teaches courses in creative nonfiction, writing as community service, and copyediting as well as freshman composition.

While teaching creative writing to college freshman, she wrote her only non-fiction book to use in her classes.

In his opening remarks, Kieran Ayton, the President of the Rhode Island Library and the Emerging Technologies and Digital Initiatives Librarian at Rhode Island College said, «As part of my job at the Rhode Island College library, I teach research instruction to first year students, freshman who have recently graduated from high school.

Some years ago, when I taught Gandhi's writings to a class of college freshmen, some of the students didn't realize that he'd led a national revolution.

Of course those steps are probably obvious to other math professors or graduate students — but wouldn't be to freshmen in college — which is why a professor will have to make a special effort not to skip steps when teaching freshmen.

He has had the privilege of teaching 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th English, Middle School Creative Writing, and Freshman Composition, Creative Writing, and Literacy at the college level.