Teaching classes

grading final papers

check in with your students; extend availabilities to meet; offer feedback, and follow up

Thoughts on bringing current events into your classroom.

creating a “humanities lab”,

But these tools require we think about their purpose, method, and audience just as carefully as when we design an essay prompt, a problem set, or any other assessment exercise.

Our discussion made the classroom feel like it was not the professor’s class to run alone, but ours as well.

student writing

Inevitably, what I find reaffirms aspects of writing pedagogy I’m familiar with while giving me fresh ways to express it to the new audiences with whom I’m working.

plagiarism

On bringing lessons from dissertation writing into your classroom.

For graduate teaching assistants, this is the time when we introduce ourselves, lay out our expectations, and, hopefully, establish the tone and level of authority that we want to convey throughout the term.

More forcefully than in any other single class, I realized the importance of universal design for learning (UDL). This curricular design features privilege multiple access points for learning, engagement, and assessment. As Dr. Jennifer Stone puts it, “designing on the front end” with UDL minimizes the need for individual learners to make a special request.

graduate teaching assistant