Teaching English in the Two-Year College Mar 2001

“You’ve Got to Roll with the Punches”: Developing as a Two-Year College Instructor

Nancy M. Fisher

Abstract

Reflects on the author's long, demanding, and rewarding career as a teacher and administrator in community colleges. Describes how she found herself an advocate of change in the profession in the 1970s, the differences she sensed and thrived upon in the community college experience, and how flexibility was the key to successfully teaching the wide array of community college students.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2001-03-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc20011953
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Closed
Topics
two-year college writing across the curriculum multilingual writers

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