It’s that time. Students who can afford to relax – don’t; some come to grips with academic and personal goals for the first time; and some need help getting out of bed at the crack of noon. I feel it…
Concurrent assignments.
I promised my comp 2 (122) students I’d survey other teachers on an issue. In class I outline the major papers and provide written assignment prompts with the syllabus on the first day of class. I also provide a “grade…
Lessons from Master Teachers
At the KCPDC Master Teacher Retreat this year, 20 of the best teachers from colleges in the KC metropolitan area generated a list of axioms or teaching truths: philosophy they teach by, such as: Teachers should violate expectations of the…
Inquiry-based Service Learning project
At the 2010 KCPDC Master Teacher Retreat, I had the privilege to sit in on a group discussion where several teachers shared success stories of a service learning projects informed by inquiry-based learning pedagogy. This pedagogy / andragogy works for…
A Rose for Emily
In addition to traditional discussions of race, gender and sexual orientation, classes today broached the topic of domestic abuse and potential incest. The 11 am class also speculated that today Emily would be diagnosed agoraphobic. The 12:30 class discussed race…
Teabonics
I’m hijacking images from a post from Boing Boing ( since I use links – it’s legal).How do these images apply to our discussion of students’ right to their own language?