{"id":109,"date":"2014-03-05T09:36:38","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pre-production.taftcollege.edu\/tcwp\/cougaronline\/?p=109"},"modified":"2014-03-05T09:36:38","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T17:36:38","slug":"new-teacher-profile-adam-bledsoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.taftcollege.edu\/echo-online\/blog\/2014\/03\/05\/new-teacher-profile-adam-bledsoe\/","title":{"rendered":"New Teacher Profile: Adam Bledsoe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New Teacher Profile: Adam Bledsoe<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Kendyl Chavez<\/span><\/p>\n

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New Teacher Profile: Adam Bledsoe<\/span><\/p>\n

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Along with new students on campus this year, Taft College has also added a new professor to their Cougar team, Mr. Adam Bledsoe. Not only is this Mr. Bledsoe\u2019s first year teaching at TC, this is also his first year teaching at the college level. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr. Bledsoe graduated from Cal State University of Bakersfield with a bachelors degree in history and a masters degree in Business. Mr. Bledsoe\u2019s teaching career started at Stockdale High School in Bakersfield, California as a history teacher. After realizing that he didn\u2019t enjoy teaching history as much as he had anticipated, Bledsoe was able to switch into teaching economics due to his Minor in economics. Once he started teaching economics and realized that econ was what he wanted to teach, Bledsoe went back to school to get his business degree. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Years later, Mr. Bledsoe had come to the conclusion that he wanted to expand on his teaching career and try teaching economics at the college level. At Stockdale, Mr. Bledsoe had taught the Honors and AP economics classes which compare to college courses, so he had some experience and an idea of what teaching at the college level would be like. I had asked Mr. Bledsoe at which level did he like better, high school or college, and he said college. He went on to say, \u201cStudents in college actually want to be here. High school students don\u2019t seem to care as much.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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After talking to Mr. Bledsoe, students can tell by the way he talks about teaching at his new school that he seems truly happy where he is. Bledsoe wants to continue teaching and the college level and in the next 4 years, he wants to try to get tenured. Mr. Bledsoe wants nothing more than to improve and make his classes more entertaining and active as possible. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I had Mr. Bledsoe for Macroeconomics this past semester and I would recommend him to any of my peers or fellow classmates! Not only is he interested and likes what he\u2019s teaching, he is very helpful and makes everything easy to understand. His classes aren\u2019t full of boring lectures, he doesn\u2019t make you want to be on your phone or leave class to go home. I asked Mr. Bledsoe what his idea of a perfect student would be and he replied, \u201cSomeone who is engaged and wants to learn . . .not going through the motions to get a good grade.\u201d Welcome to TC Mr. Bledsoe!<\/span><\/p>\n

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