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It Works For Me, Too! More Shared Tips For Effective Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
It Works For Me, Too! More Shared Tips For Effective Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
In the four years since our first book on teaching, we have noticed both on our campus and around the country a new emphasis on the instructor as teacher (vs. scholar). We have read books on the subject, attended the prestigious Lilly Conference, helped establish a Teaching & Learning Center on our campus (Hal served as its first director), and written for new journals focusing on pedagogy. It Works For Me, Too! is our contribution to the Renaissance in College Pedagogy, our attempt to fuel this brightening interest in effective teaching. Like its predecessor, this book is a compilation of …
Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Considers how to get today's schoolchild and college student to move from the words to the picture, then back again. Explores the teaching technique of having students draw what the piece of literature describes. Finds that drawing the visual image provides a much better chance of understanding a work's significance. Describes how to apply this idea with a homework assignment.
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Hal Blythe
Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.
The Caufield Family Of Writers In The Catcher In The Rye, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
The Caufield Family Of Writers In The Catcher In The Rye, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
No abstract provided.
Moody's Blues, Hal Charles
Holden's Mysterious Hat, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Holden's Mysterious Hat, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
No abstract provided.
Faculty Diversity, Kyle Scafide, Barbara Johnson
Faculty Diversity, Kyle Scafide, Barbara Johnson
Kyle Scafide
This article presents a broad view of issues related to faculty diversity. Headings include Demographics, The Growth of Faculty Diversity as an Ideal, and Barriers in the Academic Workplace. Race, ethnicity, and gender are the most common characteristics that institutions observe in order to measure faculty diversity. An even broader approach to faculty diversity involves age, socioeconomic background, national origin, sexual orientation, and diverse learning styles and opinions. Until the latter part of the twentieth century, the professoriate in the western world was composed almost exclusively of privileged, heterosexual males of Caucasian descent. Higher education institutions are generally concerned with …
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Making The Right Call: Criteria For Choosing Short Fiction, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
Notes that teachers who teach short fiction must consider several things when choosing which works to teach. Describes criteria the authors use when selecting works for their literature classes (World Literature Survey, American Literature, and Principles of Literary Study). Concludes by affirming the importance of choosing short fiction.
Lawrence's 'The Odor Of Chrysanthemums, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Lawrence's 'The Odor Of Chrysanthemums, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
No abstract provided.
Road Rage, Hal Charles
Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Drawing On Memory: A Technique For Making Short Fiction Come Alive, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
Considers how to get today's schoolchild and college student to move from the words to the picture, then back again. Explores the teaching technique of having students draw what the piece of literature describes. Finds that drawing the visual image provides a much better chance of understanding a work's significance. Describes how to apply this idea with a homework assignment.
The Superhero Formula, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Playing Up Anticipation, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Playing Up Anticipation, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
No abstract provided.
The Last Boy Of Summer, Charlie Sweet
It Works For Me, Too! More Shared Tips For Effective Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
It Works For Me, Too! More Shared Tips For Effective Teaching, Charlie Sweet, Hal Blythe
Charlie Sweet
In the four years since our first book on teaching, we have noticed both on our campus and around the country a new emphasis on the instructor as teacher (vs. scholar). We have read books on the subject, attended the prestigious Lilly Conference, helped establish a Teaching & Learning Center on our campus (Hal served as its first director), and written for new journals focusing on pedagogy. It Works For Me, Too! is our contribution to the Renaissance in College Pedagogy, our attempt to fuel this brightening interest in effective teaching. Like its predecessor, this book is a compilation of …