I’m back in the classroom, teaching, although I’m not teaching at an independent school. I’m teaching as an adjunct at National Graduate School, a degree-granting institution with a focus on quality systems management. I’m teaching the first class of their master’s program, and it’s a weekend class. Four hours Friday after work and then all day Saturday, twice. So, different in many ways, but still familiar.

I don’t know how other instructors teach the class; the school provides a set of powerpoints for each module, and I know there are faculty members who go through the ppt, slide by slide, with the class. I can’t imagine.

So I did what’s natural: discussions and group work. I can’t imagine that in working with adult learners, learners who need more than lecture.