I'm already planning my Fall courses. I start with the syllabus. It's a question about how many rules I want to put in the syllabus. I hate…
Katherine Kiefer-Newman
The old, dirty flatbed truck two vehicles ahead if me is loaded down with assorted shopping carts. Had I noticed, I would have gotten in the other…
by Kat Kiefer-Newman It was bound to happen in one of my classes. I knew that sooner or later I would be confronted by the fanatical devotion…
As I've said before, critical thinking is important, but if the students can't figure out how to put their ideas down on the page in a readable…
This week is Spring Break. Well, sort of. No, it is, but not necessarily for me. It's break for some schools, some instructors, some kids, but not…
I was out walking with a friend last week and the conversation turned, as it often does, to school. She'd just finished her college-level writing class and…
Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the…
Last semester I walked into a class that I had been petitioning to teach since I began at this particular school. It is a class on the…
Some days I really love chili peppers. I mean all kinds: habanera, jalapeno, serrano, the band from the 80s and 90s, and also the RateMyProfessor.com chilies. As…
How many times have you logged into your college mail accounts only to be overwhelmed by an avalanche of information, and then to realize that none of…
