Teaching as an adjunct at the school where I got my B.A. is a strange experience. On the one hand, I can’t help feeling like I have returned from the outside world with great knowledge to impart. You know, kind of like a hero’s journey thing. This has a boosting effect on my confidence.
On the other hand, I think that a part of me keeps waiting for someone to notice I’m here and shout “hey stop him, he’s not a teacher, he’s just an undergrad with a button shirt!”
The first class went about as well as I expected. I managed to get a class register just in time to hightail it to the classroom, quite out of breath. Half of my students were directed by their schedules to look for my class in some other room. I forgot my dry erase markers at home. None of these are big problems though. We worked it out.
I would have sworn that my class was supposed to be from 8:00 am to 8:50. But, after I let them go at ten to nine, I noticed on my roster that it’s scheduled from 8:00 – 9:05. I wonder if this was changed at the last minute or did I screw it up. Well, it’ll be nice to have the extra time.
So far so good.
August 25, 2008 at 8:34 pm |
Glad things went well for you, Fouts. It’s definitely not the same without you at NIU, but I’m sure you’ll have a great semester at AU. I’ll be reading.