Re: Teach For America, or other option?
    Posted by: Think twice on 7/07/16
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    think twice, my friend.

    On 7/01/16, Prof Phil wrote:
    > I teach at a state university and heartily agree with almost
    > everything said above...especially the comments about the
    > path to teaching at a Community College. High school teaching
    > is not that much of a consideration.
    >
    > Luckily (and I do mean luck was involved) I am a tenured full
    > professor. We have wonderful lecturers here (called adjunct
    > professors in some colleges) with masters or Ph.D.s and they
    > are underpaid and sometimes treated like crap. I am proud to
    > say my department values our lecturers and tries to treat
    > them as best we can (but have no control over their pay or
    > status). Several of them are my best friends. Many of our
    > lecturers who can teach General Education courses also teach
    > at community colleges.
    >
    > From your posts it sounds like you don't really have a
    > passion yet but are exploring. My suggestion is to go full
    > steam ahead and try everything you think you would like. That
    > is how I got into university teaching. I got downsized from
    > the American automobile industry in 1982 and made a complete
    > career change into teaching. I jumped in and loved it.
    >
    > Note: Although I am tenured at my university, I have taught
    > as a part-time lecturer at three other private and public
    > universities at the undergrad, masters, and doctoral levels
    > (both face-to-face and on-line). Lecturer pay and treatment
    > varied from school-to-school.
    >
    >
    >


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  • Teach For America, or other option?, 4/22/16, by tangelo.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/23/16, by mark.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/23/16, by tangelo.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/23/16, by mark.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/24/16, by nah.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/24/16, by tangelo.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/24/16, by mark.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 4/28/16, by cc.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 5/07/16, by Cal-Kid.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 7/01/16, by Prof Phil.
  • Re: Teach For America, or other option?, 7/07/16, by Think twice.