Know Your Profs is an ongoing series of profiles on the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions in an attempt to get to know them a little better. If you have an instructor you’d like to know more about, but perhaps you’re too busy to ask them yourself, email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we’ll add them to our list of teachers to talk to.
This issue we caught up with Dental Hygiene prof Ada Barker to talk about being a samurai, yeast-covered popcorn, and how teaching is good for her heart and soul.
1. What do you teach and how long have you been at Camosun?
Professional practice and clinical theory and practice in Dental Hygiene. 25 years.
2. What do you personally get out of teaching?
The fact that I get to work, learn, and explore with colleagues and students on a daily basis is a real privilege. It’s good for my heart and soul.
3. What’s one thing you wish your students knew about you?
That I’m a samurai re-incarnate.
4. What’s one thing you wish they didn’t know about you?
That I watch The Voice religiously. #TeamBlake
5. What’s the best thing that’s ever happened to you as a teacher here?
I love being in the classroom and in clinic and working with students who want to learn.
6. What’s the worst thing that’s happened to you as a teacher here?
When it’s Thursday and you think the food truck is coming and it doesn’t.
7. What do you see in the future of post-secondary education?
I am hopeful, and in being with my students I know that our future is bright.
8. What do you do to relax on the weekends?
I like to cook. Friday night cheap dates with my husband means Netflix and Engevita yeast-covered popcorn with butter.
9. What is your favourite meal?
I’ve never met a meal I didn’t like.
10. What’s your biggest pet peeve?
Restaurants who charge extra for guacamole.