And now to the hardest part of being an adjunct lecturer. Final papers. Final exams. Grading. Both the students, and ultimately, yourself.
There’s no help. No TA (teacher’s assistant). You are the TA and the professor.
And besides the school work, you have your own professional work to do.
But teaching is the higher calling, right?
I now realize what a luxury it is to have a small class of 15-20 (which I had at a private college in Northern California nearly two decades ago). That’s not the case at a large public institution like my current situation at San Francisco State University.
Still, even 40 students seems manageable compared to a packed mega-survey course.
I don’t teach one of those. I teach a course on diversity and the media which these days tends to overlap journalism into history, political science and sociology.
