I have just been offered a position on a project (short term) as a scorer for Pearson. Would this be a good resume builder for seeking an online adjunct position?
Perhaps not... Judging from the number of views and the lack of responses, the board must think, "No."
Would it be online or live? Anything is always a helper as a resume booster. I had substituted at a tech school for a solid week while the fulltime instructor was on vacation one year and a solid week the next year. Then I was "on call" the other times. On my resume, I am a substitute for 3 years (with only about 15 days of work). I also made sure I highlighted working as a field trainer in my corporate job. I created training classes and delivered them. It is all about gaining any experience you can in the beginning. Does that help? Here is how I list it - •Substitute Instructor - School Name, 6/02 – 04/05
Actually, other than a bit of a back and forth about DL law, the board has been pretty quiet the past 2 days. Don't sweat it, answers will start rolling in soon. Maybe you could PM a few people who have adjunct experience.
By the way, I teach for two schools steady for three years and just picked up one more school that looks like it is only 1 class per semester (but has great staff )
The scorer... ...position is online and short term but might lead to other scoring project offers. Actually Randell, the substitute idea might be something for me to look into. Thanks very much!
Pearson scoring Me too! I've been on Pearson's score-from-home mailing list since like 2006 and this is the first year I've been offered a project. I think the right way to highlight this type of experience is to focus on the skills it has in common with online adjuncting: working from a home computer, working within the company's proprietary system, managing your time, grading student responses. The Pearson work itself doesn't sound very exciting or lucrative, but nameless grading without student emails about why the paper didn't merit a 100% "since I did the assignment" DOES! I'm doing 8th grade Science. Might wanna look into working with your local test-prep company too, for similar experience. I taught for Kaplan twice (ACT in undergrad and LSAT in grad school) and it's decent extra money (averages about $13/hour, they pay for preparation and training) if you're OK with teaching in a highly-branded way. (As in, "The Kaplan Guaranteed method for answering this type of logic question is..")
