Craving visible progress, or, how I learned to love glazing windows The summer is coming to an end and with it I feel a sense of angst about all of the… Posted on: September 1, 2014 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Cooking with Drag Queens: Teaching Inclusion and Discovering the Limits of the Spanish Language One of the reasons I love to teach is that I get to learn. Be it from my students or… Posted on: March 18, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 1 Comment
Tune Up and a Smack down (part 2): The gringa returns to Bogotá Last summer I had the extraordinary good fortune to travel back in time. Okay not really, but in many ways… Posted on: February 4, 2013 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
A tune-up and a smack-down: The gringa returns to Bogotá Readers of LLU might remember a series of blog posts I did entitled "Teaching What You Thought You Knew," in… Posted on: August 8, 2012 By: bsawhill
Rethinking the role of the language textbook This semester I am teaching the second semester, second year language class for Spanish. You know the class... the… Posted on: August 7, 2012 By: bsawhill With: 4 Comments
Remain calm This sign was on the door to my building the first week of class. I took the picture, I chuckled,… Posted on: November 2, 2011 By: bsawhill With: 0 Comments
Why I teach. My job is a language center director first and foremost, but the opportunity to teach language classes gives me a… Posted on: October 18, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Ending the semester, Lessons Learned (Part 4: Assessment) I have thought a lot about HISP 205 since the semester ended last May. I think (often) about how I… Posted on: July 26, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Welcome to the free fall February 1, 2009:I have spent the day crafting a document that ended up being less of a step by step… Posted on: February 1, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 2 Comments
Struggling with the Syllabus with thanks to Pisces Dreamer for the permission to use this Flickr picJanuary 31, 2009: It's the Saturday night before… Posted on: January 31, 2009 By: bsawhill With: 5 Comments