Category: Teaching
Teaching Poetry in Literature-Based Writing Courses
| May 16, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Teaching |
This post begins a four part series that explores literature-based writing classes. In this series, we’ll explore the concept of literature-based writing courses and how we, as writing teachers, can use literature in our composition courses to teach writing. In order to gain a full perspective on this discussion, I’m going to break our exploration…
The Cascading Labor Market of Underemployment
| May 2, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Graduate School, Teaching, Work |
Tomorrow, when the monthly unemployment numbers come out, we’ll learn that the underemployment and unemployment rates remain relatively high. Big surprise there. According to the latest Freakonomics podcast on NPR’s Marketplace, there’s a new theory for why the high unemployment rate persists. Apparently, we’re getting hit with the side effects of a trend that began over a…
The Teacher-Run School: Coming to a City Near You
| April 15, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Teaching, Work |
This idea of the “teacher-run school” has been popping up lately and I’m liking it. In our weekly newsletter, #EdFriday, we featured a Pittsburgh educational cooperative that’s bypassing the high cost of learning by reducing wasteful overhead and expensive administrators. And just this morning I read an article about another potential teacher-run school being considered…
You Can’t Be Anything You Want to Be
| April 1, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Teaching, Work, Writing |
You can’t be anything you want to be. Most of us grew up hearing a repetitive mantra: “You can be anything you want to be.” All through my childhood I can remember being told this in school by teacher after teacher. Even as a kid, I was skeptical of it. By the time I reached…
Teaching Without a Plan
| March 28, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Teaching, Writing |
Teaching without a plan makes the classroom exciting and a little dangerous. In a good way. Dangerous because it’s a bit of a gamble. You never quite know for sure what will happen. Sometimes the house wins and you go back to your office and close the door, wondering what the hell just happened. These…
DIY U and a New Vision For Higher Education
| February 9, 2013 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Activism, Adjunct Professors, Book Reviews, Education, Teaching, Technology |
I read DIY U in about 24 hours. Anya Kamenetz’s book is only 163 pages, but I don’t think it contains a single skippable sentence. DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education is one of the most interesting and exciting books I’ve picked up in the past year. I grabbed a…
The Dark Side of StraighterLine’s Professor Direct Program
| December 14, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Adjunct Professors, Education, Politics, Teaching, Work |
StraighterLine’s new “Professor Direct” program claims to empower teachers by allowing them to set their own prices for courses. As Paul Fain of Inside Higher Ed puts it, “‘self-employed professor’ could soon be an actual job title.” Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jeffrey Young has written a piece that also seems to suggest…
Breaking Down the Five-Paragraph Essay at Education Week
| October 1, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Education, Teaching, Writing |
Read my five-paragraph essay piece, Should We Teach the Five-Paragraph Essay?, published at Education Week. I often reach out to my colleagues in the blogging community to see if they’d be interested in sharing posts. That usually means other English teachers or folks who write about education in general. It’s part connecting with the community…
“Good Country People”: Exploring Flannery O’Connor’s Andalusia and Milledgeville
| August 19, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Arts & Humanities, Education, Teaching, Writing |
The shaded gravel road ambles off 441 just north of town. It’s easy to miss, I learned. “If you see the Walmart, you’ve gone too far.” I turned around in the parking lot and headed north again. This time I finally spotted the small sign, almost hidden during the summer by overhanging trees. You wouldn’t…
This is Why I Teach
| April 13, 2012 | Posted by Josh Boldt under Teaching |
Right on cue, my students have gone and done something awesome to remind me why I teach. They apparently anticipated yesterday’s post, making it a good week to return to my teaching theme. You might remember last semester when I wrote about a new teaching experiment I called “Film as Composition.” It was brand new…
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