Teaching Tuesday: Love reading before you love creative writing

Teaching Tuesday: Love reading before you love creative writing–teaching at Grinnell.Straight Through the Heartwww.nytimes.comHow to teach literature? With more attention to visceral reactions, and a lot less to theory and historical background.

Teaching Tuesday: Love reading before you love creative writing–teaching at Grinnell.


Straight Through the Heart
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How to teach literature? With more attention to visceral reactions, and a lot less to theory and historical background.

Teaching Tuesday: How to Dash a Writing Tutor’s Dreams

Teaching Tuesday
Writing center director and writing instructor Melissa Hudler blogs on how students’ requests for help with their writing boils down to grammar.


Profology – “Check My Grammar!” or How to Dash a Writing Tutor’s Dreams
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Teaching Tuesday
Writing center director and writing instructor Melissa Hudler blogs on how students’ requests for help with their writing boils down to grammar.


Profology – “Check My Grammar!” or How to Dash a Writing Tutor’s Dreams
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Teaching Tuesday: ‘Is It OK if I found this funny?’

Teaching Tuesday: Adam Smith of the University of Sheffield writes about teaching humor in historical literature.


FAQ on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: ‘Is it OK if I found this funny?’
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Before recently teaching The Country Wife as an example of Restoration Comedy I cheerfully reread the play and was pleased to be reminded of quite how funny it actually is…

Teaching Tuesday: Adam Smith of the University of Sheffield writes about teaching humor in historical literature.


FAQ on the Eighteenth-Century Novel: ‘Is it OK if I found this funny?’
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Before recently teaching The Country Wife as an example of Restoration Comedy I cheerfully reread the play and was pleased to be reminded of quite how funny it actually is…

Teaching Tuesday: Gamify FYC

Teaching Tuesday: Tanya Sasser blogs on using interactive fiction to gamify teaching first-year composition.


I Give Up! I’m Finally Going to Gamify My FYC Class
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And I’m kind of excited about it. Okay. I’m ecstatic.

Teaching Tuesday: Tanya Sasser blogs on using interactive fiction to gamify teaching first-year composition.


I Give Up! I’m Finally Going to Gamify My FYC Class
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And I’m kind of excited about it. Okay. I’m ecstatic.

Teaching Tuesday: Sample Chapter

Teaching Tuesday: You can check out the sample chapter on teaching Schindler’s List from this book published by NCTE.


Great Films and How to Teach Them
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Great Films and How to Teach Them

Teaching Tuesday: You can check out the sample chapter on teaching Schindler’s List from this book published by NCTE.


Great Films and How to Teach Them
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Great Films and How to Teach Them

Teaching Tuesday: Business schools using literary classics

Teaching Tuesday: In India, leading business schools are using classics of literature to teach leadership.Literature goes to B-school: IIMs, top institutes using old classics to teach leadership – The Econoeconomictimes.indiatimes.comAt a time reading …

Teaching Tuesday: In India, leading business schools are using classics of literature to teach leadership.


Literature goes to B-school: IIMs, top institutes using old classics to teach leadership – The Econo
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At a time reading old literary masterpieces is a waning practice, several top B-schools, are harking back to old classics to teach leadership.

Teaching Tuesday: A writing class of 90 students

Teaching Tuesday: Ever dream of teaching a writing class of 90 students? Or is that more of a nightmare? Either way, hear from Chris Fosen and Kim Jaxon of CSU, Chico about designing and teaching a jumbo-sized class in this podcast from the National Writing Project.


Not Your Grandmother’s Comp Class
Ever wonder what a writing class of 90 students would look like? Ever wonder why anyone would design such a thing?

Teaching Tuesday: Ever dream of teaching a writing class of 90 students? Or is that more of a nightmare? Either way, hear from Chris Fosen and Kim Jaxon of CSU, Chico about designing and teaching a jumbo-sized class in this podcast from the National Writing Project.


Not Your Grandmother’s Comp Class
Ever wonder what a writing class of 90 students would look like? Ever wonder why anyone would design such a thing?

Teaching Tuesday: Steampunk in FYC

Teaching Tuesday: Kathryn Crowther blogs on using Steampunk with her first-year composition class of engineers and pogrammers at Georgia Tech.Punking the Victorians, Punking Pedagogy: Steampunk and Creative Assignments in the Composition Clamyblogs.in…

Teaching Tuesday: Kathryn Crowther blogs on using Steampunk with her first-year composition class of engineers and pogrammers at Georgia Tech.


Punking the Victorians, Punking Pedagogy: Steampunk and Creative Assignments in the Composition Cla
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As a Victorianist teaching primarily first-year English, I have to look for creative ways to bring my 19th-century interests into the classroom.