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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
Read More »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 […]
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