Thomas M. Flesher
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- School: Suffolk County Community College
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- Department: Economics
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Location:
533 College Rd
Selden, NY - 11784 - Dates at Suffolk County Community College: November 2015 - April 2020
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Would take again: No
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Professor Flesher is useless and never wants to compromise. You don't have to do everything, because after all, if you question your grade, he will be rude to you and won't want to work with you. The worst professor ever.
Biography
Suffolk County Community College - Economics
Economics educator and educational researcher
Higher Education
Tom
Flesher
Greater New York City Area
Two things I love: data analysis and education. I put them together to build economic literacy among all levels of students, from those with developing quantitative skills to students who have great rote ability but don't have the intuition they need. Regardless of the student's situation, my focus is on motivating students and pushing them to make hypotheses and then use mathematical techniques and data to test them.
When I'm not improving student outcomes, I'm usually obsessing over baseball and trying to find the perfect Cy Young Award predictor or figure out the economic rationale for front-office decisions.
Experience
Suffolk County Community College
Assistant Professor of Economics
Adjunct, Spring 2014-Summer 2015; Visiting, Academic year 2015-2016; Instructor (permanent) as of Fall 2016; promoted to Assistant Professor Fall 2018.
Primarily working with nonmajors, create assessments to foster economic literacy in ECO 101 (Current Issues in Economics), ECO 111 (Introductory Macroeconomics) and ECO 112 (Introductory Microeconomics). Promoted from adjunct for Fall 2015.
Currently, I'm tuning ECO 101, a one-semester survey course, using frequent low-stakes assessments to make it less intimidating for the nonmajors required to take it.Camp Parkwood
Wrestling instructor
Kids need basic skills. They also need to learn how to control their own bodies and what safe wrestling looks like and feels like. During the summer, I help campers entering first through eighth grade, boys and girls, learn the basics about body mechanics and maneuvers, what the rules of the sport are, and how to handle it when things don't go your way. This is easily one of my most rewarding positions.
Kaplan Test Prep
MCAT, LSAT, GMAT, and GRE Instructor and Tutor
Taught content and strategy to students preparing for college, graduate, law, and medical programs
Farmingdale State College
Adjunct Instructor
Develop tests, deliver lectures, and demand the best from students in ECO 156 (Intro Macro), ECO 157 (Intro Micro), and ECO 321 (Engineering Economics).
Stony Brook University
Teaching Assistant
Led recitations in Introduction to Economics (ECO 108); developed and taught Law & Economics (ECO 345)
Education
University at Buffalo
BA
Philosophy, Political Science
University at Buffalo
MS
Economics
