Calling All Brown Baggers For this month’s Brown Bag event, Professor Dunn and several graduate students presented some methods and techniques on how to effectively respond to student writing. Professor Dunn began by identifying some advice for instructors which is also summarized here. Graduate students then offered a variety of suggestions based on current educational research. […]
Prioritize Most students will spend only a few minutes reading your comments. So prioritize. What are a couple of things they should work on for the next draft or the next assignment? What are you responding to? Early draft? Mid-stage draft? Finished project that you’re grading? The context should drive your responding decisions.
These two screencasts describe the article review assignment that I use in my 300-level classes. It’s keyed to the Reading and Summarizing Secondary Sources handout. This demo is an article review of Mark Rifkin’s essay “Romancing Kinship: A Queer Reading of Indian Education and Zitkala-Sa’s American Indian Stories.” We just read the introductory section in […]
This winter break, I taught my first online course- EGL 260: World Mythology. In fact, I just finished grading final papers a few hours ago and thought now I don’t need to think about my… Source: Teaching Online & Authentic Final Essay Assignment | Scott’s Schoolhouse Reflections
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