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 way, then no one will care if they thought critically. Even if I explain all of this to...
Katherine Kiefer-Newman
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 all of them..
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 was sharing her.
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 dark and brooding subject of death. When I first talked with the department chair about this 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 dark and brooding.
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 I get older,.
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 it pertains to your life as an adjunct? Last week, my husband and I were grading student work...
This morning I was standing in an urban classroom teaching the political ramifications of death for Westerners as viewed through a Japanese lens. In a few hours, I will be.
There are days when I wonder why I even got out of bed. In teaching, these days can sneak up on you when you aren't ready for them. For me,.
I am not shy. This was an asset back in the early 90s when I sold computers and corporate network solutions. It's an asset in the classroom now. Not being shy, though, means that sometimes I may trample over appropriate social boundaries without even realizing...