Instructor
Adam U. Kempler
- Courses12
- Reviews33
- School: College of the Canyons
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- Department: English
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Location:
26455 Rockwell Canyon Rd
Valencia, CA - 91355 - Dates at College of the Canyons: August 2015 - July 2020
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Professor Kempler assigns a horrific load of work. There is a time that he posted our homework on Tuesday, saying we had fifty more pages to read or annotate. Plus, a full page of analysis on other reading ( it must be full page or you will lose points) and vocabulary review for an exam. Take note that due date for those is by Thursday. It is reasonable if this is my only class. And, almost impossible if you have other classes and a job. He's very picky too. Do not take his class.
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For a simple entry english class, Prof. Kempler's expectations are way too high.
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Awesome
Honestly, I learned more in Prof. Kempler's class than all of my other English classes combined.
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Awful
You could only describe Professor Kempler as one of the most detestable, repulsive, and childishly obnoxious professors a person will ever have to deal with. You are expected to write daily journal entries along with the daily book notations, and to top it off you are assigned gratuitous amounts of homework. The classroom is plagued by Kempler's unnecessary classroom habits.
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Prof. Kempler is one of the toughest profs I've ever had. He assigns essays and sends you to the TLC to have them checked by a tutor. The tutors try their best to help, but since they aren't English teachers, they don't know how this prof wants his essays to be done. He's also a tough grader.
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Prof. Adam has the most unrealistic expectations. I had this course over the summer for 5 weeks. We read 3 books, wrote 3-5 page papers with 24 hour turn-around each. He doesn't seem to care about the life you have outside of school.
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Professor Kempler taught us how to improve our thinking and writing skills. Overall, you will learn a lot while having fun in his class.
Biography
College of the Canyons - English
Adam Kempler has been employed in education since 1986 when he began working his way through college by tutoring severely handicapped students, counseling teenagers, and coaching volleyball players at Fountain Valley High School. Upon graduation from CSU Long Beach with a B.A. in English, a minor in psychology, and a teaching credential, he student-taught English and psychology at Fountain Valley High School before becoming an English teacher at Laguna Hills High School. Adam compares teaching high school students to being a wild animal tamer; it's exciting, but the animals like raw meat! As a result, Adam went back to school to earn a M.A., again, at CSU Long Beach, in English to prepare to teach at the college level.
While earning his M.A., he taught reading classes for the Institute of Reading Development and English as a Second Language classes for LCP International. Upon completing his M.A., Adam worked for three years as an adjunct English instructor at Orange Coast College and several other colleges in Orange County before beginning to teach full time at College of the Canyons (COC) in 1997. For a time, he served as the chair of the English Department, and his favorite classes to teach are poetry, children’s literature, and introductory English. Also, for six years, he taught an introductory college class for COC in a local juvenile detention facility.
Adam has been taking scouting groups surfing, fishing, and backpacking and teaching these skills since 1986. He completed additional post-graduate coursework in kinesiology at CSUN, outdoor leadership training, and Red Cross certification, and has been teaching physical education and recreation courses at COC since 2005.
Adam and Jennifer have six children: Jesse, Stephen, Rachel, Rebekah, Timothy, and Ruth. Adam enjoys spending his free time with his family; additional interests of his include camping, surfing, reading, writing, playing the guitar, serving at church, and taking pictures.
Experience
Impact Publishing, LLC
Owner
Alarmed by the sky-rocketing prices of colleges textbooks, Adam Kempler started Impact Publishing, LLC in 2008 as a way to provide high-quality books for college students at low prices, such as Success Strategies: Accelerating Academic Progress by Addressing the Affective Domain, edited by Kim Gurnee ($7.00).
In addition to books used in college classrooms, Impact Publishing, LLC offers inspirational biographies of individuals who have overcome all odds to find success, such as March to Freedom: A Memoir of the Holocaust by Edith Singer ($12.00) about a 16-year-old girl who survives a year in two concentration camps (Auschwitz and Taucha) during WWII by sabotaging a Nazi missile factory.
In August of 2015, Impact Publishing, LLC will publish No Excuses: The Story of Elite Gymnast Aimee Walker-Pond by Adam Kempler ($12) about a girl born deaf and blind in one eye who rises to the level of international elite in the sport of gymnastics—a feat no else has accomplished in history of the sport.
Impact Publishing, LLC welcomes authors to submit book proposals by following the submission guidelines.
College of the Canyons
English Professor
Adam Kempler has been employed in education since 1986 when he began working his way through college by tutoring severely handicapped students, counseling teenagers, and coaching volleyball players at Fountain Valley High School. Upon graduation from CSU Long Beach with a B.A. in English, a minor in psychology, and a teaching credential, he student-taught English and psychology at Fountain Valley High School before becoming an English teacher at Laguna Hills High School. Adam then completed a M.A., again, at CSU Long Beach, in English to prepare to teach at the college level.
While earning his M.A., he taught reading classes for the Institute of Reading Development and English as a Second Language classes for LCP International. Upon completing his M.A., Adam worked for three years as an adjunct English instructor at Orange Coast College and several other colleges in Orange County before beginning to teach full time at College of the Canyons (COC) in 1997. He is a past chair of the English Department, and his favorite classes to teach are poetry, children’s literature, and introductory English. Also, for six years, he taught an English class for COC in two local juvenile detention facilities, Camp Scott and Camp Scudder.
Adam has been taking scouting groups surfing, fishing, and backpacking and teaching these skills since 1986. He completed additional post-graduate coursework in kinesiology at CSUN, outdoor leadership training, and Red Cross certification, and has taught recreation courses, including surfing and backpacking and wilderness survival, at COC.
Education
California State University-Long Beach
Master's Degree
English Language and Literature/Letters
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