Refocusing College Diversity Courses: Culturally Relevant Pedagogy at Perimeter College
Editor’s Note: This post is the first in a series about Culturally Relevant Pedagogy (CRP).Shelly Brown-Jeffy and Jewell Cooper (2011) argue that CRP means a pedagogy in which instructors “need to be non-judgmental and inclusive of the cultural backgrounds of...
Beyond the Classroom Walls
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...
Let’s Unpack That: Facilitating Writing Analysis and Reflection in Freshman Composition
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...
It Grades For Me and It Grades For Them? Sign Me Up! (Teaching Tip)
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...
Students Stretching Past Summary Toward Analysis: The APATSARC Drill in Composition
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,...Subscribe by Email
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