I was a professor of curriculum and instruction at East Tennessee State University and am now in emeritus status. Currently, I teach English composition part-time at George Mason University. I have taught in Cincinnati, Turkey, China and the Czech Republic.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Balancing Act
Teaching gobbles time. It's sometimes hard to work in the sightseeing, because the teaching has to come first. Today, Joe brought his bloodhound puppet Beauregard to the middle school where I've been teaching. Monday, we made it out to the old city wall which is now in the heart of Nanjing (above).
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