I have been away from my blog for good reason: since very late last year, I have been going through the process of getting hired to teach anthropology for a local community college! As of right now I am to teach a class on physical anthropology and another on cultural anthropology. I was surprised that they would give me two classes right off the bat. I suppose it\u00c2\u00a0is like finding out that someone is going to have twins: very exciting but also double the everything!<\/p>\n
Update<\/em>: Of course as soon as I publicly announce it, the situation changes. I will be teaching just cultural anthropology this semester, and possibly an online physical anthropology class later in the spring.<\/p>\n Since the week of Christmas, I have been busy designing two anthropology classes from scratch. The school has been great in giving me the freedom to pursue my own vision of the courses. I have so many ideas that I have had and keep having, and I want to do all of them. I am realizing that I may have to save\u00c2\u00a0activities and projects for next time, since I have to handle the usual logistics of organizing the class and\u00c2\u00a0teaching the subject matter. Sorry, probably no non-beer pong for these classes! Not that I’m going to just lecture for two and a half hours (times two) a week. On Twitter I have been posting snippets of the syllabus and first class material that I think depart from the norm, but with a purpose.<\/p>\n After every week, I plan on writing a post-mortem on what happened in each class and write down my ideas for next time. Post-mortem is such a dour word for this situation, though appropriate for the lecture on forensic anthropology. How about, reflection?<\/p>\n My classes start in ten days! I look forward to sharing my reflections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have been away from my blog for good reason: since very late last year, I have been going through the process of getting hired to teach anthropology for a local community college! As of right now I am to teach a class on physical anthropology and another on cultural… Read more“Moving On Up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[20],"tags":[77],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":905,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithcchan.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}