Changing the Face of Service Learning in the Online Public Speaking Course: The Persuasive Community Advocacy Speech (Teaching Tip)
by Bettina Benoit Durant Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism, Georgia State University Goal of the Assignment: The goal of this persuasive speech assignment is to get students engaged and to provide students with the principles of...
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,...
Watching before Writing: Integrating Visual and Verbal Literacy in the Composition Classroom
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...
“It’s Just Too Important”: Service Learning and Social Justice
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...
Teaching Social Justice in a Two-Year College Classroom: To Kill a Mockingbird and Just Mercy
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...Subscribe by Email
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