Amanda Chambers

The portion of this section about students and age issues really hit home. In the past I have had students question my ability to teach them because of my age. I became a college professor at the age of 28. Now, at the age of 32, I am younger than a lot of my students. In addition, I'm still younger that the parents of my younger students. I kind of sit between a rock and a hard place. While I am completely competent in my ability to teach them, I shy away from posting my picture to our course portal… >>>

My classes are quite diverse when it comes to how students communicate with each other. I've been teaching online for just about a year now. Luckily, I have yet to run into any arguments or inappropriate student behavior. However I have noticed that some students are more, well, talkative than others. This was always the case in my F2F classes, but students could see who would converse and who wouldn't in those classes; it's significantly harder to do that online. I see some of the more gregarious students trying to engage the less talkative students and often the more gregarious… >>>

I used to be a slight procrastinator. It was never bad enough that I didn't get my work done or was up all hours trying to finish on time; it was just that sometimes I would put tasks off that I knew I could be doing. Well, I recently had a baby (she's 2 1/2 months old now) and now I face the obstacle of immediacy. I try to finish everything all at once because I don't want to run out of time. I teach online and stay at home with my daughter. We are just now, in the last… >>>