{"id":9972,"date":"2014-11-26T06:00:16","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T14:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=9972"},"modified":"2014-11-24T11:03:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T19:03:08","slug":"camosun-instructor-erin-booth-chose-accounting-for-purely-financial-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/11\/26\/camosun-instructor-erin-booth-chose-accounting-for-purely-financial-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun instructor Erin Booth chose accounting for purely financial reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Know Your Profs<\/em> is an ongoing series to help you get to know the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions.<\/p>\n

Do you have a favourite instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want to know more about one of your teachers, but you\u2019re too busy, or shy, to ask? Email editor@nexusnewspaper.com and we\u2019ll add your instructor to our list.<\/p>\n

This issue we talked to Camosun College accounting instructor Erin Booth about falling into a career choice, the joys and sorrows of different kinds of student feedback, and the secret to being a good accountant.<\/p>\n

1: What do you teach and how long have you been a teacher at Camosun?<\/i><\/p>\n

I got my first big break teaching with Camosun last year when I was offered the Introduction to Managerial Accounting course. I must have done something right, as I have since taught the introductory level financial accounting courses and am currently teaching introductory tax.<\/p>\n

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Camosun instructor Erin Booth knows about the joys and sorrows of student feedback (photo by Jill Westby\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

2: What do you personally get out of teaching?<\/i><\/p>\n

I get to learn! There is an incredibly sharp learning curve when it comes to instructing, and with every class I teach I take away a new insight into how I can be a better teacher, how I can convey concepts better, or simply how I can keep the class from falling asleep.<\/p>\n

3: What\u2019s one thing you wish your students knew about you?<\/i><\/p>\n

There are two things. One, I never wanted to be an accountant. All of my close friends thought I was going to be an astronaut. I realized in my early 20s that I\u2019m interested in many fields of study, from sciences to the arts, but I didn\u2019t have the financial means to be a professional student. As a result, I strategically switched into Camosun\u2019s accounting program so that I could be employable and establish some financial security for myself. Two, I am a lot older than many people think. And, yes, I am old enough to have earned my designation. And, no, I did not graduate high school when I was 14.<\/p>\n

4: What\u2019s one thing you wish they didn\u2019t know about you?<\/i><\/p>\n

I never wanted to be an accountant. In reality, choosing to do my accounting degree at Camosun was one of the best decisions I have ever made, and I look forward to all the self-interest courses I will be taking.<\/p>\n

5: What\u2019s the best thing that\u2019s ever happened to you as a teacher here?<\/i><\/p>\n

Getting super-positive, unsolicited feedback from students, whether it\u2019s a nice message at the bottom of a final exam, or emails. It\u2019s just always wonderful to hear that students have enjoyed my class. I keep all notes, emails, and cards.<\/p>\n

6: What\u2019s the worst thing that\u2019s ever happened to you as a teacher here?<\/i><\/p>\n

Getting super-negative, anonymous feedback from students. The negative nature of the comment doesn\u2019t bother me because I am new to teaching and have so much to learn, but it\u2019s the fact that I won\u2019t ever get to ask the student how I could have helped more, or how I could improve, that sticks with me.<\/p>\n

7: What do you see in the future of postsecondary education?<\/i><\/p>\n

I believe postsecondary education will be free… Which is great, but then I wouldn\u2019t have to be an accountant to fund all my self-interest studies.<\/p>\n

8: What do you do to relax on the weekends?<\/i><\/p>\n

Anything outside, unplugged and with my Vizsla, Barley, who also looks incredibly young for his age!<\/p>\n

9: What\u2019s your favourite meal?<\/i><\/p>\n

This is going to sound odd, but I don\u2019t eat meals. I never have enough time to put thought into actually creating a \u201cmeal.\u201d As a result, I live on random pieces of food: bananas, tuna from a can, microwaved oatmeal and water in a bowl…<\/p>\n

10: What\u2019s your biggest pet peeve?<\/i><\/p>\n

Students that apologize to me for their grades. It makes me feel awful, as I don\u2019t want anyone to feel responsible to me for their learning and progress in my classes. I\u2019ve been a student; I know what it\u2019s like to have many competing priorities, and what it\u2019s like to neglect a class and then cram it all in during the last week, promising yourself you\u2019ll always stay up to date with your homework. I\u2019m just happy that students have chosen me to lead them through their class. Good accountants are not necessarily those who achieved straight As; good accountants are those who have passion and interest for the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Know Your Profs is an ongoing series to help you get to know the instructors at Camosun College. Every issue we ask a different instructor at Camosun the same 10 questions. Do you have a favourite instructor that you want to see interviewed in the paper? Maybe you want to know more about one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-november-26-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9974,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9972\/revisions\/9974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}