The Adventures of a Kindergarten Teacher's Aide
  Lynn Fukuda

I believe in angels... Some are tall and grown and others are small like children. Angels have the ability to grant wishes to those in need. After ten long years of teaching adult students for the university, I began to feel drained after some difficult situations. Sometimes I felt that adult students were demanding and were much too smart for me...

I looked back with fondness to a time when things were not as complicated... I sighed with nostalgia for the funny, busy, and topsy-turvy times.    full text

Editor's Note:
  Phil Brocato

Accelerated Learning :
  Rick Sheridan

Composition instruction in colleges has not been around for an incredibly long period of time. In fact, as a discipline, it is very new, going back only a few decades, though the first writing classes go back a little over a century. After the Civil War, more kinds of students began attending college. This change in demographics caused some new problems that the universities weren't exactly ready to deal with. One of them was the inability of students to speak and write "correctly." No longer was higher education merely a place where upper class students would go to become clergymen, lawyers, or doctors. When this happened, professors reacted with great zeal to identify the problems, and try to weed out or at least rehabilitate the transgressors of "correct" English.   full text

Essay:
  Tamara Ashton

Student Essay:
  Jamie Wilger

Teaching Philosophy: Leaders and Motivators
  Nelda Mier

I believe that teaching is a process in which as a professor my responsibility is to facilitate a learning, self-actualization experience for students. Through out this process, I lead and motivate students to acquire conceptual knowledge, to experience self-reflection, to develop research skills, and to develop analytical and critical thinking skills.

I do not see myself as a bank of information for the students, rather as a promoter of learning new conceptual and theoretical frameworks.    full text