pipilo

On Friday I had meetings at three different colleges.  Two department meetings at colleges where I now teach, sandwiched around a meeting with a teacher at a different college, where I've never taught.  My two current college employers are asking me to teach again in the spring, and now I've been offered another job teaching at the new college.  Am I crazy?  I love teaching and this will be great.  One of the courses is organic and biochemistry, neither of which I've taught in a while, but I think I'll do okay.  I still have my other job too, but that will have to take a back seat to all these teaching assignments.  It's where I want my life to go.  Teaching gives me energy and satisfaction.  I love to see when students "get it," and that happens pretty often in a chemistry class, if the students let themselves learn the stuff.  Some students have a hard time getting themselves to pay attention and learn, for various reasons. Most of my courses are intro courses, so it's not like they're expected to come in with any knowledge.  They just need to be ready to learn.  The challenge is reaching the students who aren't quite ready.   Next semester, the challenge may also be staying organized enough to remember what I'm doing, and how the students are doing, in each course.  Wish me luck!