Category: Teaching Tips
Teaching tips, tools, and hacks as well as descriptions of lessons
10 Ways Literacy Narratives Will Rock Your World (or at least your writing classroom)
I have long had a love affair with the literacy narrative as my former students can attest. I assign them…
Education is about the journey, not the destination
There has been a great deal of discussion regarding personal writing on the Writing Program Administrators discussion list (WPA-L) and…
Radical Idea: What if we stopped teaching writing?
I have a radical idea. What if we stopped teaching writing and instead focused on the writer? What if we…
You can assign writing and avoid a grading avalanche
We all know what traditional writing assignments look like in college – the report, the term paper, the essay –…
Teachers: Expose Yourself and Show Your Work
How often do you show your work to your students? Those who teach in fields such as math and science…
Considering Contract Grading and the Class Blog
In the Spring Semester I used class blogs to foster class discussion in my online classes (see Feedback Loops). I…
