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@ThyCorndog

Congratulations. I was an adjunct for about 8 years.

* First, don't overthink things it will only make you nervous.

* Think of the best professors you had. What made them effective? Until you develop your own classroom personality, emulate the methods of successful professors you had.

* Don't try to be too friendly to students. Your job is to teach them. Know both/all sides of every argument. Present them fairly.

* This is kind of touchy but you want every student to feel they have to work hard. That's not the same as being a hardass. It takes time to get a feel for but if you get the balance right, good students will excel, middling students will work harder and become good students and bad students (by which I mean students who want to coast) will either move towards the middle or drop the course (which is preferable to getting a bad grade).

* Remember as the professor you know more about the subject than the student. This takes some of the pressure off too. Handle this responsibility with humilty and try to have fun with it (I used to use funny stories to illustrate points).

Hope this helps. Good luck and let me know if you have other questions.
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