Month: December 2020

Assessing Learner Needs, Maintaining Instructor Presence, & Building Community in Asynchronous Courses

By Samadrita Kuiti As an extraordinary fall semester winds down, I feel the necessity of reflecting on what I have learned from my own experiences as a primary instructor of both English literature and intro-level composition courses throughout 2020. Like many college-level instructors across the disciplinary spectrum, I had to come up with contingency plans […]

Making Your Lessons Meme-orable

By Megan Lyons In March 2020, when academic institutions across the country shifted to online instruction, instructors faced a quandary. They could either be passive, simply transferring their in-person teaching methods to an online environment, or they could be active, innovating their lessons and striving to connect with students across this new modality of teaching. […]

3 Tenets of Pandemic Pedagogy

By Mollie Kervick Things are not normal. This may come as a surprise to many of us, especially those of us in academia where the pressures to meet deadlines, generate writing, submit articles for publication, and teach vulnerable students are more acutely felt than ever before. As a graduate student instructor of a composition course, […]