Books about Adjunct from Amazon.com

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Drugs commonly used to treat epilepsy have some extremely harmful side effects. Treating Epilepsy Naturally is an empathetic, practical, empowering look at treatment options, lifestyle choices, and ways of living well. Written by an author who has been successfully living with it herself for most of her adult life, this comprehensive guide offers alternative treatments to replace and to complement traditional therapies and sound advice to find the right health practitioner for you..
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In recent years, colleges and universities have markedly increased their employment of adjunct professors. Unfortunately, many adjunct professors enter the classroom with little or no training in teaching and classroom management techniques and suffer frustrations which are painful to both themselves and their institutions! This book provides the guidance and addresses the issues imperative to the adjunct professor. Each chapter addresses classroom survival issues with appropriate context and bulleted lists of "Do's and Don'ts." The perspective of "Through the Adjunct's Eyes," near the end of each chapter, shares common classroom successes and challenges. "Tips for Thriving," a bulleted review of key points and suggested additional readings, concludes each chapter. The book concludes with chapters on self-evaluation and techniques for building a part-time career in academe. Anyone who is interested in how to begin their approach to teaching..
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The number of part-time faculty members is increasing steadily, to the point that most colleges and universities could not function efficiently without them. The evening and weekend availability of adjunct faculty enables us to expand class schedules to serve the educational needs of nontraditional students, and their expertise offers students important real-world perspectives.Yet there is often a lack of preparation or support for their vital role. Best Practices for Supporting Adjunct Faculty is written for a full range of academic leaders, including instructional administrators, department chairs, and directors of teaching and learning centers. It showcases proven initiatives at a variety of institutional types—two- and four year, public and private—that help achieve the needs of adjunct instructors, while increasing their effectiveness within institutions’ existing delivery systems. This book provides research data on the initiatives highlighted, and valuable ideas for institutions expanding their professional development opportunities for part-time instructors—thus enhancing student learning and improving accountability outcomes. Contents include:

• Deepening our understanding of adjunct faculty
• Ensuring an effective start for adjunct faculty
• Supporting adjunct faculty through face-to-face and online programming
• Mentoring adjunct instructors in a variety of approaches
• Building community and a sense of mission
• Analysis of orientation, pre-service training, recognition, and comprehensive professional development programs for adjunct faculty
• Portraits of proven programs and strategies for implementing initiatives at your institution
• An adjunct professor’s perspective on the benefits of supporting your part-timers’ teaching

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The employment of adjunct faculty is often what allows community colleges to offer excellent yet affordable education; however, this group is often deprived of the professional development and basic amenities enjoyed by their full-time colleagues.

Academic administrators are those charged with hiring and supervising adjunct faculty, and this book provides them with examples of successful programs that highlight the important connection between teaching quality and effective hiring, orientation, acculturation, and professional development practices for their constituency. These models come from community and technical colleges across the United States and can be implemented into any two-year system.

Through the use of research, case studies, and hands-on how-to guides, checklists, and samples, this volume’s expert contributors explain how to understand part-time faculty— how to motivate them and value them as members of the academy. They go on to offer practical advice for recruiting, integrating, supporting, and retaining these great teachers..
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Whether you're just thinking about teaching online, a first-time online course facilitator, or you are an experienced distance educator, Going the Distance: A Handbook for Part-Time & Adjunct Faculty Who Teach Online will help you sharpen your online teaching skills, develop and deliver more richly-structured distance education courses. This book was authored by Evelyn Beck, an educator who has been developing and teaching distance education courses for almost a decade. Going the Distance co-author, Dr. Donald Greive, is the writer of the much-used and trusted Handbook series A Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of Adults, as well as Handbook II: Advanced Teaching Strategies , which together have sold more than 165,000 copies. This is more than just a teacher's manual! This little powerhouse helps adjuncts tackle the day-to-day challenges associated with teaching online courses. From technological preparation to course design to planning and virtual classroom techniques, this book offers model materials, practical suggestions and successful strategies. Going the Distance: A Handbook for Part-Time & Adjunct Faculty Who Teach Online provides adjuncts who teach in distance education programs with the contents of a first-rate teaching workshop for a fraction of the price..
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This is more than just a teacher's manual! This little powerhouse helps adjuncts tackle the day-to-day problems associated with teaching part-time. From course planning to teaching adult students, this book offers practical suggestions, strategies and advice. With over 160,000 copies sold, A Handbook provides adjuncts with the contents of a first-rate teaching workshop for a fraction of the price..
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160 pages. Paperback

Higher education expert Donald Greive takes experienced and long-term adjunct faculty beyond his best selling Handbook for Adjunct/Part-Time Faculty and Teachers of Adults to Handbook II: Advanced Teaching Strategies for Adjunct and Part-Time Faculty. In this book, adjuncts and their managers offer their own insights into a variety of topics, like...

-The Syllabus and the Lesson Plan
-101 different strategies and tips to use the first week of class
-Preparing for a Distance Education Assignment
-What is Critical Thinking?
-Large class teaching tips
-Testing and Grading

From one of the most well know names in faculty training comes another tool for adjunct and part-time faculty, whether teaching for the first semester or the fiftieth.

Order today for Faculty Orientation Programs!

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43 pages. Paperback
In its 4th Edition! This is an intentionally brief and to the point book for busy part-time faculty. It is a quick and straightforward teaching reference full of tips, strategies and proven techniques that address teaching in the contemporary classroom. If you are new to adjunct teaching, returning to the profession or have been teaching for several years, Teaching Strategies will help make your teaching experience more productive and enjoyable.

Order today for Faculty Orientation Programs!

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