English 101 as I’m experiencing it now is dramatically different from my English 101 course as an undergrad, which was essentially a literature survey, more on how to think about reading than how to think about writing. I have been considering this shift in my own expectations as well as the expectations of my students. […]
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Blog 1: Anxiety and Expectation
Anxiety and Expectation Before I started, I was having a lot of trouble creating a vision of my classroom. My past teaching experiences—substitute teaching in charter schools in Chicago, teaching ESL in Santiago—were unpleasant, restrictive, stifling. And yet, I’ve carried this idea of myself as a teacher, as wanting to teach for so long. […]