Teaching Resources

Assessment

• From Degrading to De-Grading

• Delaying the Grade: How to Get Students to Read Feedback

• Assessment as a Process, Not an Event: Anti-Abelist Strategies for All Students

• Making the Grade

• How to Ungrade: A Workshop

• Getting Away from Grades: Student Self-Assessment

• When Grading Less is More

• Labor-Based Grading Contracts: Building Equity and Inclusion in the Compassionate Writing Classroom

• Grading Contract Resources

• Reviewing the Views on Contracts

Classroom Activities

• Collaborative Note Taking

• Small Changes in Teaching: The First Five Minutes of Class

• Small Changes in Teaching: The Last Five Minutes of Class

• What We Know About Writing

Composition (General)

• English 1101/1102 @ COD

• Where You Live and What You Live For: The Life-Place Personal Essay

• Teaching the Unruly Unessay

• How to Make a One-Page Zine

• Why I Don’t Ask Students to Write the Thesis Statement First

• What it Means to Write – And What We Teach Students

• What is Good Writing?: A Meditation on Breaking Rules and Grammar Pedagogy

• Assigning Revision Memos

Course Prep (General)

• The Metaquestion: A Different Approach to Course Design

• Steps Toward a Big Idea Syllabus

• Universal Design Ideas

• Accessible Syllabus

• The Rhetoric of Participation: Interrogating Commonplaces in and Beyond the Classroom

• How to Make Your Teaching More Engaging

• Dr. Jenn Polish on Accessible Syllabus Design: Content, Assignments, Assessments, and More

Digital Literacy and Composition

• Researching a Public Figure’s Online Identity

• Emoji and Audience Awareness

• Using Instagram for Personal Reflections

• Remix a Story

• Audio Movie Review Assignment

• Panoptic Memes

• Teaching with Infographics

• Visual Narratives and the Five Image Story

• Composing and Analyzing Online User Reviews

• On Crafting an Assignment Sequence for a Collaborative, Web-Based Final Project in a Composition Course

• Digital Literacies and Visual Rhetoric: Scaffolding a Meme-Based Assignment Sequence for Introductory Composition Classes

• Who Owns Student Data?

Research

• Web-Literacy for Student Fact Checkers

• Check, Please! Starter Course

• Reverse Engineering: Teaching Bibliographies and Footnotes

• Credit is Always Due

• Fierce Attachments

• The Racial Politics of Citation

• Factitious

Rhetorical Analysis

• Cultural Ideologies and Visual Rhetoric

• Multimodal Rhetorical Analysis

• Teaching Rhetorical Pathos Through Playlists