Cover; Contents; Foreword; Welcome to Quick Hits for Adjunct Faculty and Lecturers; Introduction; 1 Balancing Competing Demands; Some Semi-Useful Advice for Part-Time Faculty; Nine Tips for Maintaining a Work/Life Balance; Time Traps-How Office Inefficiency is Stealing Your Time; Compartmentalizing, Prioritizing, Personalizing: Balancing Competing Demands; Rigor Versus Realities: The Challenge of Balance in the 21st-Century Classroom; Reduce Time Spent Grading: Use Rubrics!; Secret Agent; Balancing Competing Demands When Working as an Adjunct; 2 Addressing Student Issues.

All Together Now! Engaging College Students with Active Student ResponseAttendance: When "Build It and They Will Come" Doesn't Work; Making Course Content More Engaging!; Deepening Conceptual Knowledge and Content Vocabulary Through Word Sorting; Helping Students Comprehend Scholarly Research; Knowledge Surveys: A Self-Assessment Tool; Quick Tips for Time Management; Encouraging Classroom Discussion with Real-Time Polling; Student Affairs 101; Student Writing Challenges; One Quick Tip for Addressing Test Anxiety and Increasing Exam Preparation; 3 Adopting Best Practices.

Applying The Five Rs to Traditional AssessmentHow to Engage Students and Create High Teaching Presence in Online Courses; Incorporating Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education in Online and Traditional Courses; Strategies for Engagement in Online Courses: Engaging with the Content, Instructor, and Other Students; Doing It Right the First Time: Universal Design of Course Materials; Live-Tweeting Documentaries in the Classroom: Engaging Students and Enhancing Discussions with Social Media; Multiple Learning Environments in Higher Education; Leading Classroom Discussions.

Modeling a Learning Community for Future Secondary TeachersTurn Grading into a Learning Opportunity; Are Student Learning Outcomes Really Necessary?; Using Project-Based Service-Learning as Text for Reflection; Active Learning Strategies; Proof of Technology as a Multiplying Factor in Macroeconomic Growth & Production; Using Quality Matters (QM) to Improve All Courses; 4 Managing the Classroom; Managing Problematic Classroom Situations; What Does the Adjunct Bring to the Classroom? Hopefully, Not Just Teaching; The Participation Log: Assessing Students' Classroom Participation.

Keep It CentralFlipping the Classroom; Building Community in the Classroom through Utilizing Critical Pedagogy; Building Relationships in Online Classes; One Class, Twelve Students, Five Stations; Using Expectancy Theory and Small Win Theory for Classroom Success; Fostering Meaningful Peer Interactions: Going Beyond the Nice; Modifying Constructivism for Coherence; 5 Enhancing Professional Development; Develop Professionally: Listen to Your Students; The Once and Future King: Adjunct Status and Impact at the American University.