January 2018 – Methods of TETYC

Week 4: Get Into the Groove (Intro)

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January 30, 2018

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Week 3: Lexiles, Teaching Literature, and Research at the TYC (Outro)

Another impressive week on your parts! I’ve found the conversations on the discussion forum really interesting and exciting and I’m eager to learn more from you as we keep going this term. One of the reasons I gave you Logan’s piece this week is that it’s really easy to talk about why we teach English […]

January 27, 2018

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Week 2: Reflecting on Bain (Outro)

This has been a very rich, full week of discussion. Your initial posts in response to Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do have been impressive in terms of how much you wrote and all the questions that emerged. Several folks noted how difficult it was to try to write about the whole book, so […]

January 21, 2018

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Week 2: Talking about Teaching, Classrooms, Students, Colleagues

This week, we engage with Ken Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do. You’ll find this book on recommended reading lists for college campuses around the country, particularly on campuses where there is faculty support center (e.g., Center Faculty Excellence, Center for Teaching and Learning) that uses the book to support college faculty. One thing […]

January 16, 2018

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Week 1: Next Steps (Outro)

Sometime in the past, maybe on a 90s hip-hop album, I first ran across the neologism outro as a riff on the intro (“introduction”), and I’ve always kind of liked it. I like language, I like words, I like the playful ways in which English has always been a mixing and remixing of words and […]

January 12, 2018

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Welcome to ENG 7960: TETYC (Week 1 Intro)

Welcome to English 7960: Methods of Teaching English in the Two-Year College! This semester is the first time that we’ve offered 7960 fully online, and I’m excited about the possibilities this course will provide, even as I’m a bit anxious about making the transition from face-to-face (F2F) to online. When I first created this course […]

January 6, 2018

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