Trends & Teaching DVD
Pearson is proud to present this professional development DVD for Trends and Teaching in Composition, created by members of the composition community for the composition community. The first part of this DVD offers stimulating insights from renowned rhetoricians on current approaches and issues in the composition classroom. The second part of the DVD provides practical teaching advice from experienced adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants.
Part I, “Trends,” features commentary from twenty-six rhetoricians on seven current topics across the discipline: argument, responding to student writing, inquiry, portfolios, visual rhetoric, writing across the curriculum, and writing from sources. Each topic segment runs for five to ten minutes and weaves together insights from recognized experts. These practical segments move from definitions and theory to enlightening comments about how each approach “looks” in the expert’s own classroom.
Part II, “Teaching,” features commentary from experienced adjuncts and graduate teaching assistants who offer real-world advice on critical topics like creating a syllabus, crafting in-class activities, managing the classroom and responding to student writing. In “General Wisdom,” teachers talk candidly about what they wish they had known before they started teaching – the one idea or piece of advice that they feel all new instructors should have when they walk into their first composition classroom.
Part I of this DVD was developed for those who are interested in hearing multiple perspectives on important discipline approaches, and may prove especially valuable for those whose training was not in composition. Part II was developed to give practical, real-world advice to those who are new to the classroom, as well as to experienced teachers looking for fresh ideas.
Contributors
Topics contributors include Linda Adler-Kassner, Christine Alfano, Bruce Ballenger, Shane Borrowman, Hugh Burns, Davida Charney, Bill Condon, Michael Day, Robert DiYanni, Ann Dobyns, Lester Faigley, Laura Gurak, Deborah Holdstein, Tom Huckin, Christine Hult, Richard Johnson-Sheehan, David Jolliffe, Joe Law, Frank Madden, Janice Witherspoon Neulieb, Alyssa O’Brien; Robert Root Jr., Charles Schuster, Robert Schwegler, Harvey Weiner, and Edward White.
Teaching contributors include Sara Bartlett, Thea Callender, Patricia Chapman, Elizabeth Crews, Ondra Krouse Dismukes, Nancy Haiduck, John Kofron, Muriel Lange, Sarah Moon, Jillian Quinn, Steve Rosenstein, Steven Sams, Shelina Shariff-Zia, and Jessica Walker.
Advisory board
Pearson extends special thanks to the Trends & Teaching Advisory Board: Bryan Bardine, University of Dayton; Shanti Bruce, Nova Southeastern University; Thomas Dow, Moraine Valley Community College; Jill Heney, Boise State University; Stacie Lewton Rice, Boise State University; and Marcia Selva, Sacramento City College.
How it can be used
Segments from Topics & Teaching can be used during TA or faculty trainings, in courses on teaching Composition, as discussion starters in faculty development workshops, or on an individual basis by TAs, part-time, or full-time faculty who are interested in learning new ideas they can apply to their Composition course.
How to purchase
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