Re: Physiology lab. [HAPP-L]

[Leslichten@xxxxxxx]

Sorry that you feel "We have tried adjuncts, but most are more trouble than they are worth" have you tried explaining what is expected and where to find materials (or even that the materials exist)! Did you hire adjuncts with a proper background or just a warm body? Having taught both full and part time for more years than I care to count I know that whenever more than one person teaches in a lab, a good deal of coordination must occur. Unfortunately no one is born knowing where the other 2,3,4...n people that also teach in the lab tend to put stuff. It takes a few years of teaching with others to know how to share a lab successfully. Many new adjuncts make up in enthusiasm what they may lack in procedures. After a few semesters of not being able to find things or hearing about them after they've covered that material tends to really dampen the enthusiasm. I have found over the 
years (none currently at least) that some of the ful
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 timers I've taught with were also more trouble than they were worth!

Leslie Lichtenstein
Massasoit Community College
One Massasoit Blvd.
Brockton, MA 03203
llichtenstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx