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WildBill wrote:

paperchunker wrote:Per the Tarrant County College Human Resources page minimum requirements for adjunct professors is a Masters Degree and 18 hours graduate study in the discipline being taught. It just seems some of the comments were condescending toward community colleges. Kind of like Kimber owners discussing a Taurus

There are plenty of PhD's around to teach classes, so many community colleges [and even high schools] can get a doctorate degreed person to teach classes for the same salary as people with a master's degree. I have observed that the level of education of the instructor has little bearing on the ability to teach. Some of the best instructors I had were at the community college level. They actually seemed to care about the education of the student.

GTRich94 wrote:

paperchunker wrote:

WildBill wrote:

philip964 wrote:My first point was, I remember how hard it was when a class was taught by a GTA, and the GTA spoke English as a second language. If that is the case, no wonder they did bad. However, if your really a straight A student, introduction to chemistry and general chemistry should not be that different. Chemistry 2, sure a big difference.

This is a community college so I doubt they have GTAs.

I remember taking a Chemistry lab from a GTA who was from Hong Kong. At the beginning of the lab he explained to the students the purpose of the experiment: We had to measure the "Waypa Presha" of an organic liquid.
At the end of his explanation, probably 90% of the class had no idea what he was taking about.

Edited to add: I don't have any experience in this, but maybe some of instructors at the community colleges are graduate students from local universities.

I have been attending Tarrant County College for the past 2 years. Every instructor I have had either has a PhD or a Masters and is working on PhD.

I taught computer classes at North Harris Community College for about a year and only had a Bachelors. However, I was an adjunct and not a full time professor. For community colleges, you generally just had to have one degree higher than the students you are teaching. I don't know if the rules changed when North Harris Community college renamed itself to Lone Star, but that's how it used to be about 10 years ago.

WildBill wrote:

philip964 wrote:My first point was, I remember how hard it was when a class was taught by a GTA, and the GTA spoke English as a second language. If that is the case, no wonder they did bad. However, if your really a straight A student, introduction to chemistry and general chemistry should not be that different. Chemistry 2, sure a big difference.

This is a community college so I doubt they have GTAs.

I remember taking a Chemistry lab from a GTA who was from Hong Kong. At the beginning of the lab he explained to the students the purpose of the experiment: We had to measure the "Waypa Presha" of an organic liquid.
At the end of his explanation, probably 90% of the class had no idea what he was taking about.

Edited to add: I don't have any experience in this, but maybe some of instructors at the community colleges are graduate students from local universities.