Teaching
This week’s prompt asks us to reflect on pandemic-era changes in teaching practices and how we have been personally changed during this most “interesting” of times. I’m having trouble. After… Read More
I’m standing in front of my class of 3rd graders, and my room is bulging with 40 students. They are screaming and throwing pencils, and my efforts to quiet them… Read More
In a previous Write 6X6 season, I wrote about my teaching heroes (Teaching Inspiration En Pointe and Just a Girl in Senior English). In those essays I waxed nostalgic about teachers who… Read More
For this last week of GCC’s Write 6X6 challenge, the suggested prompt was to write about where we see GCC 5 or 10 years from now – a “vision,” if… Read More
I dreaded my College Composition course in the fall of 1981. Not because I hated writing, but rather because of the teacher I was assigned – Mr. Luther Stewart. Mr.… Read More
I recently attended a professional development session on fostering resiliency in college students, and the presenter was definitely singing in my language. Concepts such as self-regulation and coping skills were… Read More
