Please see the attached flyer for the MAYMESTER 2016 course English 8900: The Teaching Life in Fact and Fiction, taught by Dr. Beth Burmester from 1:45 to 4:00pm (CRN 54120).

This class is designed for all the concentrations in English (Literary Studies, Creative Writing, and Rhetoric and Composition) and for students in the TEEMS program. The focus will be on investigating the representations and identity of secondary and post-secondary teachers through genres including scholarly writing, memoir, and fiction, and through filters of gender, race, sexuality, class and cultural studies.

The aims are to provide students inquiry and meta-reflection into what it means to teach, to be a teacher, and to create a teaching persona and philosophy. We will explore pedagogies (queer, feminist, student-centered, and others), as well as the scholarship of learning, teacher ethnography, memoir-writing, the extracurricular aspects of a teaching life, including tutoring, off-campus, and teachers as practicing writers.

Assignments may include: short reading responses, in-class writing exercises, written observations of fictional teachers, a book review; memoir essay.