If I am completely honest, I’m not sure exactly who I want to be as a teacher yet. It’s probably an unsatisfying answer, but it is the one that immediately rings true in my own mind. I feel as though I just haven’t had enough time in the classroom to get a grasp on the […]
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Who Should Determine Course Curriculum?
When I ponder what it means for students and teachers to be adversarial, my mind immediately jumps to the topic of curriculum. Students and teachers can debate all day long over what topics, subjects, texts, etc, should and can be included in a course curriculum, but it is ultimately up to the professor to decide […]
Passive-Aggressive Stuff: Expectations & “What’s the Point?”s
I’ve been fortunate to have not encountered any truly toxic behavior in my classroom thus far, but I’m always alert to its potential of disrupting the classroom in a significant way. There’s certainly a taxonomy present if I’m thinking in these terms—what I would consider toxic would be outright abuse (which can take several forms, […]
Bodies, Histories/Identity, and Futures
I am conscious of being a short brown queer feminine-masculine person when in front of the class I teach. I am conscious of every moment of hesitation I have that my students witness and how they witness it in the context of my being a brown queer person in a position of authority. The manifested […]
Illuminating the Path Towards An Ease with Teaching
When I told my friends that I would be teaching English 101, I alluded to it being absurd or ironic as I joked with them, “I don’t know English.” Having moved to Chandigarh, India when I was ten years old and subsequently completing 6th through 10th grade in India, I returned to the States with […]