Posts Tagged ‘worries’

Test prep

I really hate test prep, and to a large extent I feel as if that’s what we did on Monday night. The students were stressed about the upcoming essay. I wish I could be tough like many other professors and say, too bad, here’s the question, figure it out. But as a teacher educator, I [...]

It was an odd night. We started out with the literacy orientation (gotta come up with a better name) in which we introduced the literacy faculty to all the 620 students and went over the expectations for the program and answered questions. We went much longer than we usually do, but I believe it’s time [...]

It was an interesting week, at least for me on my side of the desk. I’m feeling class is a little fragmented these days, but I’m trying to feel out what student needs are as well as provide the bits and pieces of strategies focused toward supporting writing development and continued explorations of literacy as [...]