by kcrowther | Dec 10, 2020 | Reflective Teaching, Teaching and Learning
This school year, some GSU Perimeter faculty have been participating in a CETLOE faculty bookclub, reading Cia Verschelden’s Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, racism, and Social Marginalization. In a recent...
by kcrowther | Dec 20, 2019 | Current Issues in Teaching, Giving Feedback on Student Writing, Peer Review, Reflective Teaching
Revising My Peer Review Sessions: Creating a “Peer Tutor” Experience in the Classroom by Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu) Introduction: This semester, I tried a new approach to peer review that I based on a typical peer tutoring session in a writing...
by kcrowther | Feb 7, 2018 | Reflective Teaching
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 kcrowther | Jul 12, 2017 | Assignments, Example Materials, Reflective Teaching, Teaching
By Rebecca Weaver (rweaver@gsu.edu) For the last dozen years or so, I have been teaching something I call “The APATSARC Drill” in my composition classes. Students use it to do an analytical drill of a non-fiction text (usually a news column) we’ve read together,...
by kcrowther | Feb 22, 2017 | Assignments, Example Materials, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Teaching, Teaching with Technology
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...