My current context is one of distance, but close observation. I can only know the reality through my classmates, articles, and continuous perusal of sources available to me, and even then, I feel as though it […]
While living in Japan, I taught at a commercial high school with an emphasis on learning business skills. After graduating, most students would advance into customer service based fields such as becoming part of a […]
Prior to teaching at the secondary level, I sometimes co-taught literacy workshops for incoming freshmen at Queensborough Community College. These one to two weeklong workshops served as an introduction to content […]
The use of technology in the classroom is still a difficult one for me, though I understand its value and potential to have groundbreaking effects on the ways students can engage in learning. I am sure that during […]
As someone who is not currently teaching, I can’t imagine the difficulty my classmates are currently experiencing while trying to successfully execute remote learning, especially for those who are teaching s […]
An idea raised in last week’s class discussion was that literary analysis and argumentative writing (or perhaps, all forms of writing) can be perceived as almost one and the same. In other words, everyone draws f […]
Arguments and debates often have the ability to silence, but they also have the potential to uplift, too, if we carefully consider the ways in which we approach an argument. Shannon Carey ruminates on this, when […]
A particularly resonating resource provided from the course schedule was the article, “Create Safety by Modeling Vulnerability,” by Amanda Blaine. The author describes a moment in teaching in which she shared a p […]
Narrative writing gives students the tools to transform the breadth of their experiences into essential understandings of themselves and ways in which to construct counter-hegemonic worldviews. Colonial harm, […]
During my student teaching practicum, I noted alarming assumptions made about students, especially those of the Caribbean and African diasporas: that standard English prevailed, their native vernaculars were […]
