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 23, 2017 | Example Materials, Reflective Teaching, Teaching
By Rick Diguette (rdiguette@gsu.edu) Sophomores who enroll in my world literature survey read major works dating from the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Deciding on which texts to assign, however, is always a daunting task. Developing a semester reading...
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...
by kcrowther | Jan 24, 2017 | Example Materials, Giving Feedback on Student Writing, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Teaching, Themed Clusters
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 | Dec 18, 2016 | Assignments, Example Materials, Scholarly Teaching, Service Learning, Social Justice, Teaching, Themed Clusters
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 kcrowther | Dec 18, 2016 | Assignments, Example Materials, Reflective Teaching, Scholarly Teaching, Social Justice, Teaching, Themed Clusters
By Andy Rogers (arogers41@gsu.edu) In order to teach critical reading and thinking skills, I developed a lesson plan for my Modern World Literature class that focused on the American South. The purpose was to demonstrate the complexity of a literary character and...