Computing Educators Oral History Project:

"And the chair of the department always said, "I'll let you always pick the times you want to teach because I don't pay you anything". So I always taught when my children were in nursery school, so it wasn't like they were at a babysitter so I could teach. And then I would pick them up at nursery school after class let out, and then I would do my grading and lesson planning and everything when they went to bed at night. So you know it was a really exciting time for me because I felt like I had it all. I felt like I was really doing some interesting work, and I loved college students. And I still had my babies, and I could still be the full time mom that they thought I was. So it was a very nice life" Link to this audio snippet in new window

"You know, that was the way I started out. I started out I think very traditionally, the way we always did it in college. I would lecture to my students. I would do my notes, I would try to make good examples. But I lectured at them. And then I'd say, "Do you get this? Is it okay?" And then of course what would they say, they'd say nothing. And it took me many years before I figured out how to engage them in a more active way. And I think that's a failing of all teaching, that we aren't helping people become better teachers." Link to this audio snippet in new window