Current Teaching Schedule, 2022-2023
Clark College is exiting the pandemic with a new found love of remote and online classes. We may be looking at a future with an even split between face-to-face, hybrid, and online (mix of fully async and sync remote). No HyFlex! I will remain teaching, as I have since 1999, fully online asynchronous classes, currently pre-calculus and calculus. While I suspect that after 20+ years my time teaching at Univ. of Phoenix has come to an end, the Dean of Natural Sciences asked me to share, "What do you think you would like to focus on to improve your teaching going forward?" My response is that if I were to continue teaching at UOP, I'd like to see the mathematics courses have improved academic integrity. A plagiarism checker is no longer provided by the university for discussions, so I have to copy and paste each one into a third party app to verify authenticity. The app I use is not working as well as it used to, so I'll have to find another way. It's not right that students earn credit for copying answers to discussions straight off sites that provide answers to UOP assignments and assessments. Having no mechanism to check for this, nor any penalty for doing so even when submitted for academic violation, further degrades the value of the degree UOP students earn, and therefore all for-profit university degrees. Summer 2022: Teaching two Calculus I (first time in Stewart/WebAssign) and one Trigonometry at Clark. Super ecstatic to be performing a 12-week curriculum review of Calculus I as a Mathematics SME at Outlier.org. Fall 2022: Teaching a Calculus I and two Trigs (last time in MyLab?) at Clark. May get to moonlight for first time since Spring 2020. Winter and Spring 2023: Would like to be back to teaching online Calc I fall, Calc II winter, Calc III spring along with as many trigs as I can get. Guess I will end my career at Clark without ever having to teach what was my speciality coming to Clark in '96, Differential Equations. Long sorid history there, ugh. |
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Teaching Highlights & Curriculum Development - eLearning
Lots of updates due here! 2021 spring develop and teach corequisite college algebra course. 2020 summer At University of Phoenix served as the SME during a major upgrade to the Foundations of Geometry course. Sabbatical Fall 2018 <-- To be added! Milestone: taught over 250 online mathematics classes. Sabbatical & JIT <-- To be added! Became a certified Quality Matters certified Peer Reviewer and Publisher Reviewer. Milestone: taught over 100 online mathematics classes with students from every continent. |
Teaching Highlights & Curriculum Dev.
- Home-Education
Development of homeschool health class "Effects of DES". <-- To be added! Mini-Sabbatical. Homeschooling High School. Homeschool outreach "Mad Math"classes. <-- To be added! Sabbatical #1 and #2. <-- To be added! Began home-educating my child. |
Teaching Highlights & Curriculum Dev. - Face-to-Face classes
Developed and taught intense algebra review course. Faculty Advisor for the two-year college honor society Phi Theta Kappa Developed premier websites for the Clark College mathematics division, the Washington Mathematical Association of Two-Year Colleges, and to support my own classes. Team-taught a dynamical systems seminar. Incorporated “reform” mathematics into pre-calculus and calculus courses. Developed and team-taught a cross-disciplinary mathematics anxiety course. Redesigned my traditional lecture classes into an active learning inverted classroom. Premier faculty at new community college in Washington state. Developed and taught intense three-term calculus course in eleven weeks. Taught large-section mathematics class using small-group projects. Team-taught college arithmetic course at age 20. |