by kcrowther | August 2, 2019 | Reflective Teaching | 0 Comments

by Dr. Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu) I’m a talker. I’ve always relied on my strong and pliant voice to engage the world and to assist me for the twenty years I’ve been teaching. I teach composition at a community college and my multi-faceted voice does a lot for...

by ocantrell1 | April 15, 2019 | GSUPEP, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Service Learning, SoTL Reflection, Teaching, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: This post is the first in a series about experiences faculty, staff, and students have had working with the Georgia State University Prison Education Project (GSUPEP). You can learn more about the project at their website...

by kcrowther | January 7, 2019 | Assignments, Reflective Teaching, Service Learning, Social Justice, Teaching, Teaching and Learning, Teaching Tips | 0 Comments

by Tamara Shue (tshue@gsu.edu)      Phones attached to their hands, short attention spans. Instructors often think of these characteristics when we think of millennials. By the same token, millennials live in a world that—thanks primarily...

by kcrowther | November 16, 2018 | Example Materials, Reflective Teaching, Teaching Tips | 0 Comments

By Jessie Hayden (jhayden5@gsu.edu) - GSU Perimeter College. French poet Paul Valėry once famously said, “A poem’s never finished, only abandoned.” One assumes that Valėry persisted and continued to probe the depths of his craft, ever striving to master his chosen...

by kcrowther | February 7, 2018 | Reflective Teaching | 0 Comments

By Amy Cassaniti (acassaniti@gsu.edu) Group work. The bane of our existence as well as every student’s. As educators, we recognize the value of group work: fosters cooperation, enables collaborative learning, boosts public speaking skills, and aids in lesson...

by ocantrell1 | June 20, 2019 | GSUPEP, Short Form Essays, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series about experiences faculty, staff, and students have had working with the Georgia State University Prison Education Project (GSUPEP). You can learn more about the project at their website...

by ocantrell1 | April 15, 2019 | GSUPEP, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Service Learning, SoTL Reflection, Teaching, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: This post is the first in a series about experiences faculty, staff, and students have had working with the Georgia State University Prison Education Project (GSUPEP). You can learn more about the project at their website...

by kcrowther | February 22, 2017 | Assignments, Example Materials, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Teaching, Teaching with Technology | 1 Comment

By Charles Fox (cfox4@gsu.edu) In his essay, “How to Teach Film Adaptations, and Why,” Thomas Leitch argues for restructuring English departments in a way that more accurately reflects our new vision of that which is literary. Whereas in a traditional English...

by kcrowther | January 24, 2017 | Example Materials, Giving Feedback on Student Writing, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Teaching, Themed Clusters | 0 Comments

By Lauren Curtright (lcurtright@gsu.edu) English instructors at all levels of education, as well as the professional organizations that set our pedagogical standards, must take a hard look at our beliefs and practices about responding to students’ writing. In the face...

by kcrowther | December 18, 2016 | Assignments, Example Materials, Scholarly Teaching, Service Learning, Social Justice, Teaching, Themed Clusters | 0 Comments

By Matt Dolloff (mdolloff@gsu.edu) Debra Greenwood in Journal Of Education And Training Studies defines service learning as “a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning...

by ocantrell1 | June 20, 2019 | GSUPEP, Short Form Essays, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: This post is part of an ongoing series about experiences faculty, staff, and students have had working with the Georgia State University Prison Education Project (GSUPEP). You can learn more about the project at their website...

by ocantrell1 | April 15, 2019 | GSUPEP, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Service Learning, SoTL Reflection, Teaching, Uncategorized | 0 Comments

Editor's Note: This post is the first in a series about experiences faculty, staff, and students have had working with the Georgia State University Prison Education Project (GSUPEP). You can learn more about the project at their website...

by kcrowther | January 24, 2017 | Giving Feedback on Student Writing, Peer Review, SoTL Research Essay, SoTL Work in Progress, Teaching, Themed Clusters | 1 Comment

by Jennifer M. Colatosti (jcolatosti@gsu.edu) In my first semester teaching at Perimeter College, I was assigned three sections of the Foundations for English Composition Learning Support class. The purpose of the Foundations class is to help underprepared students...

by kcrowther | December 18, 2016 | Example Materials, Scholarly Teaching, Social Justice, SoTL Work in Progress, Teaching, Themed Clusters | 0 Comments

By Neeley Gossett  (ngossett1@gsu.edu) During the fall 2016 semester, I assigned my English 1101 classes to write personal narrative essays about social injustice. My inspiration for one of the assignments came from the Alliance Theatre’s Collision Project. “For three...