Alan
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Dave Schaafsma:
Thnking for liking my too-brief E.D. review, I wonder what teaching methods you teach since I taught for 40 years, requiring daily papers for 20, and getting them to aloudread (Vonnegut, Bellow, Flannery O'Connor, Dickinson)? Can you message me about teaching, though I retired in '08?
Dave Schaafsma
I got a PhD at Michigan in 1990 in the Program in English and Education, which is to say I satisfied all of the requirements for the PhD in both areas, and since then I have been working in the field of English education, for the purpose of preparing students to become English teachers. We have four ""teaching methods" classes here at UIC, including an introductory course that speaks primarily to teaching in the city; a teaching of writing course; a teaching of literature course, and a final methods course that is usually focused on the teaching of drama, often specifically on teaching Shakespeare.I also teach courses in Young Adult Literature and Graphic novels, with an eye to how to integrate such texts into the English curriculum. Though I am now 69, I am still teaching.
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