Today was my first day teaching class for the fall semester. I teach a class called "Threshold Seminar" which is designed for under-prepared, incoming freshman. Have a nice diverse group of students, including 4 older students (we call them "non-traditional" students in higher education) who tend to be more vocal than the pups right out of high school.
Had some brief introductions and reviewed the syllabus (that's higher education talk for course outline) then jumped right in on case studies of potential problems that students may have beginning college. Had great discussion, kinda surprising on Day 1 for everyone to chime in, but they did. This bodes well for the rest of the semester. I also have a student mentor working with me the whole class, which really helps because that tends to ease the anxieties of incoming students when they have a fellow student in such a role.
Looking forward to class on Thursday, but not necessarily looking forward to having to grade homework all the time.
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