As I start a new year of teaching I aim to say less and mean more.
Category: Education
I got my MA in Interpreting Studies with an emphasis in Teaching Interpreting. These are posts about teaching, learning, training, professional development, education, pedagogy, androgogy…
Trip to Aberdeen, South Dakota to teach
Returned to Aberdeen to teach another workshop to the interpreters of South Dakota, this time on fostering independence.
This building shows the yellow brick that inspired local writer L. Frank Baum to create the yellow brick road in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Don’t be clever or snarky. You want to show off your sharp wit? Keep it for when you’re writing letters to the Promotion and Tenure Review Committee. Unless you are being kind, do not be cute or ironic or use mockery when writing comments on a student’s paper. The ability to decide somebody’s grade is not the same thing as being able to bully that person. The easiest thing in the world is to make a student feel bad. You should get satisfaction from being that person’s teacher, not from being that person’s judge.
—Gina Barreca, 5 Ways to Make Grading Easier
Something to ease end-of-semester stress
Student: Professor, can I do something at this point to help my grade?
Professor: Um… it’s May.
Student: Sorry… may I do something at this point to help my grade?
(credit: anonymous)
Would like to hear from people who read my thesis
In the four years since my master’s thesis was published by Western Oregon University on Digital Commons, it has been downloaded 2,036 times. Oddly, though, I have not heard from readers or seen it cited. What strange times we live in! If you read my thesis, please email me@danielgreene.com or leave a comment to let me know how you used it in your research and/or practice. Thanks!
