Perfecting Pedagogical Practices

Panel 1: Designing Freshman Composition Courses and Assignments

1A: “Thinking for Its Own Sake: using exploratory research writing,” Amanda Hayes

Exploratory Research Assignment & Argument vs Exploratory Writing.

 

1B: “Using a Lens to Focus 1510 Students and Myself,” Brandon Bender

 

1C: “Finding personal meanings through song analysis: An ENG 1110 Handout Connecting Song Lyrics with Student Experiences,”

Jon Stansell

 

Panel 2: Classroom Management Techniques and Tips

2A: “Generating Participation,” Michael Johnson

 

2B: “Letting Go of the Reins: Getting Students Involved in Course Design and Management,” Claire Eder

 

2C: “Fear and Learning in the Classroom” Paul Martin & Ben Smith

 

11:00-11:50am            Dr. Mara Holt “Teaching U.S. and Transnational Feminisms with Thelma and Louise (1991) and Chaos (2001)”

 

 

Panel 3: Teaching Theory and Theory of Teaching

3A: “Merit of Communicative Language Teaching in ESL/EFL Contexts,” Thu Hoan Do

 

3B: “English for Specific Purposes,” Mohamed Amira

 

3C: “Rethinking Quantitative Reasoning Pedagogy,” Duke Cruz

 

3D: “Creating a Teaching Persona with Merlin,” Spencer Smith.

       

Panel 4: Non-traditional writing assignments for Junior Composition

4A: “Creative Projects in the Composition Classroom: A Case Study from Writing About the Environment,” Jennifer Pullen

 

4B: “Creating Amateur Detectives: The Case of the Mutilated Middlemarch,” Renee Benham

 

4C: “Tell it Slant- An abstract for Allegory Farm,” Wesley Roj

 

Panel 5: Using Media in the Classroom

 

5A: “MMORPGs in teaching ESL” Begum Sacak & Saeideh Hosseini

 

5B: “Using Multi-modal Mind-mapping to Reformat Literacy in FYC,” Erica Lange

 

5C: “Classroom Technologies: Getting the most out of Blackboard,” Samuel Stinson