This semester I am teaching second semester second year Spanish. You know the class… the one where you have to finish out the textbook and all that is left to cover are such grammar points as the hypothetical conditional (If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?) and random bits of (…)
This entry is part 14 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyIt has been a busy spring, what with our infamous birds and a remarkably rough and tumble college admission process for my eldest son. My energies, needless to say, have been diverted away from this space. There has been a lot of chatter recently(…)
This just in from one of our readers: Indeed, an upgrade to our header is in the making. Fear not, gentle reader, no more scary doggies. (Thanks, Ben, for the nudge )
This entry is part 29 of 35 in the series Teaching TransparentlyMarch 20, 2009: Midterm assessment time. The College wants to know whether students are in peril of failing. No surprise: no one is failing. How -well- they pass remains to be seen. But something is not gelling…something seems a bit off. Something needs to(…)