I became close with many faculty members at Montana State University, where I did my undergrad, and many of them would tell me some of what I could expect from teaching or going to graduate school after I’d officially been accepted to Western. In the months leading up to actually starting the quarter, my mentors […]
Prompts
Creating Fun Classroom Enviroments
My expectations in teaching writing this quarter derive largely from my past experiences in English courses; I hope to take the best aspects of each of my individual English classes and combine these with my personal sense of relaxed, fun, and productive learning. I strongly believe that students who look forward to class, who engage […]
What were your teaching expectations?
For your first short-form blog post, I’d like you to think back to your expectations for what it would mean to teach first-year composition. Perhaps you had ideas about your role in the classroom, of what it would be like to be The Teacher. Or perhaps you had ideas about the subject, and how you […]