Started teaching Financial accounting in SJCBA (St Joseph's college of Business administration ) from Jun 13. People at the helm very dignified and good to deal with. It takes some time to understand the level of the students and tailor the teaching to a way that they understand.Endeavour has been to make concepts as simple as possible ,starting with the simplest examples. Initial 5-8 sessions , might have been a bit fast for the class. Based on feedback have also increased the no solved examples in the class. Students appear to be warming up to that. The first assessment test was a bit tough but the correction was liberal. After initial complaints , that is after the test, the students quietened after seeing that the evaluation was liberal.
A chance for me to go back and relearn concepts. In trying to simplify the methods to teach concepts, one gets a good and new perspective oneself.
I have communicated to the management that I can teach Corporate Finance, Financial management and costing . The remuneration is quite ordinary. As a visiting faculty, one can take this kind of assignment up if one is genuinely interested in teaching and is okay with some remuneration. Teaching a subject for the first time, takes a lot from one in terms of making ppt . working out some examples etc, repeat of the same subject should be simpler. Let me see how things shape up. Have sent across application, resume to a few more institutes but for a sector which finds it difficult to get good quality people to teach, the lack of response has been very surprising. May be I am wrong in thinking that it does not attract good people. Another thought, may be a bit naughty and nasty is that there could be a vested interest in terms of the existing faculty may not be comfortable with some one who they could find a challenge and could feel insecure.It could also be a case of that the current faculty that is the full time faculty being available to teach , asking visiting faculty to teach means hour based pay and additional cost.For the second trimester , they have asked me to frame a tax course involving direct and indirect taxes.
