Current Teaching Schedule, 2020-2021
Continuing to work under the coronavirus-induced switch to all online and remote-learning classes at Clark College. Since I've taught online for 20+ years, I took this opportunity to completely revamp my class structure and design, syllabi, philosophy of education and diversity statements, and FAQs. (Likely bit off more than I can chew at once, but its been an ed-venture.) With the goal of easing the transition for students who don't normally choose fully online classes, I transitioned my courses to Canvas (College Algebra, Trigonometry, Calculus I, and Calculus II so far), instituted required homework, reduced mandatory discussions, increased flexibility in the testing schedule, and moved all my mini-lectures and examples to newly designed courses in WAMAP. Interesting changes, mostly positive, but with every change comes some failure from which to learn, so further revisions are certainly in the works for next term. UPDATE 1/28: Just got word I'm not getting to teach Calc III this spring, disappointing for me and the students I've had since algebra. Seems odd to not complete the year-long sequence as I have every year since 2009. So Calculus III won't get converted to Canvas this year. Might teach CoRe College Algebra (Co-Req version) with Knewton platform, we'll see. At University of Phoenix after serving as the SME during a major upgrade to the Foundations of Geometry course last summer, I'm enjoying the new design, structure, and integrated materials. |
Curriculum Development & Teaching Highlights (eLearning)
REST OF PAGE UNDER RE-CONSTRUCTION!!! Lots of updates due here! Sabbatical Fall 2018 <-- To be added! End of an era -- online collaboration downgrade. <-- 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. |
Curriculum Development & Teaching Highlights (Face-to-Face classes and 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. 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. |