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Making Reading Social or The Power of Peer Pressure

We teachers are, in our heart of hearts, problem solvers. We see something not working in our courses and we strive to make it better. Sometimes, we fail. But sometimes we triumph so spectacularly...

Jul 23, 2012 Like

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Dear Online Class: I love you.

I am teaching a writing course online for the first time. When I received the assignment, I wavered between terrified and excited. I knew it would be a challenge. The set-up was rough, to say the...

Jul 12, 2012 Like

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Motivation?

We’ve all heard it before… “I wish I had your job. You get summers off.”“Well, I picked the wrong profession. You get summers off.”“Must be nice.” I used to be quite defensive about these types of...

Jun 11, 2012 Like

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Teacher “Branding”: What Flavor are You?

After a month of non-academic pursuits, I attended an academic institute this weekend that united local teachers to discuss pedagogy, participate in interactive presentations, and network. By the...

Jun 5, 2012 Like

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Spring (E) Cleaning: Clearing Away Online Clutter

The academic calendar is full of rituals. Fall book orders, winter break, spring cleaning. All year long, I let things pile up. I stack papers in my office at school. I tuck stray notes into my...

May 24, 2012 Like

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Conference like a Champion

Last Thursday, I went to my first solo teaching conference. I’ve been to some stellar academic conferences in the past several years, traveling to California, Kentucky, and Connecticut. I have...

May 14, 2012 Like

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Write Like You Draw: Achieving Flow

In an attempt to indulge my non-teacherly interests, I’ve been taking a class through my university called, “Foundations of Visual Communication.” It’s the first in a series of classes that will,...

May 4, 2012 Like

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Time to get Meta: Bloggin’ about Bloggin’

As we at THTT evaluate our summer goals and look to the future, I’ve been contemplating the rhetorical concept of The Blog, as well as the future of this particular blog. Over a year ago, ProfKM...

May 2, 2012 Like

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Tales of a Temp or How I Spent My Summer Vacation

This morning was surreal. I emerged from the subway and looked around. There were people everywhere wearing suits, and skirts, and real shoes. I couldn’t spot a single backpack. Not one pajama-clad...

Apr 26, 2012 Like

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From the Self Help Shelf: How Setting Goals Saved my Semester

Over the past few months, I’ve thought about THTT…a lot. I missed writing, reflecting on pedagogy, and asking questions. I missed the community of teachers, writers, and students I’d grown to rely...

Apr 24, 2012 Like

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A Resurrection: A Reply Ode to Red Lips and Academics

Spring is the season for resurrections. THTT is not immune. After almost an entire academic year of silence, I was forced to shake off my blogging negligence by our friend @laurabond. One recent...

Apr 19, 2012 Like

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Peer Review Meltdown 2011

“Peer review is the most important writing you will complete in this course.” I drill this phrase over and over. And I believe it. The genre of the peer review is one that prepares students for a...

Sep 22, 2011 Like

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Brave New World

Last week, I began my first full-time teaching gig as a lecturer of writing. It has been surreal. Free coffee. An office. No more mid-afternoon naps in my car between classes… With the excitement...

Sep 16, 2011 Like

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SOS! SOL!

Last Wednesday afternoon I was quietly packing up my things and congratulating myself on a successful first week of school when an urgent email popped up on my screen. The inquiry was seemingly...

Sep 15, 2011 Like

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Welcome Back, Me

You hear a knock at the door. When you open it, you almost don’t recognize the woman standing in front of you. She’s a little more tan than when you last saw her, a little slimmer, and definitely...

Aug 24, 2011 Like

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You’ve Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em: Guilty Pleasures as Teaching Tools

I haven’t taught anyone anything in a month. Well, I’m sure that’s not true…just not in the formalized Me Teach, You Listen way. And it feels glorious. However, on June 27th I embark upon a 3-week...

Jun 9, 2011 Like

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Assignment Writer’s Block

As we all close the books on Spring 2011 and submit those final grades, now begins what is usually my absolute favorite part of teaching. No…it’s not summer break (that would be cheating…I mean my...

May 19, 2011 Like

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Letting Go: (Not)Responding to Student Work

Almost as soul-sucking and anxiety inducing as doling out grades is composing the response that accompanies–or justifies–that grade. At the beginning of my teaching career I provided 3/4th to 1...

May 13, 2011 Like

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Pimp My Grade: A Post on Grade Inflation

The following is a guest post by Ay Be. Ay Be is an instructor of writing and, as this post will show, too hot to teach. Before collective bargaining began hogging the spotlight earlier this year,...

May 12, 2011 Like

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In Fear of the B+?

Back in February, in response to a group of students who were disappointed with their grades, Prof. KM offered her defense of the B+. On her way to problematizing the grading system in general, she...

May 11, 2011 Like

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The Buddy Problem or: Teaching with Danny Tanner

The following is a guest post by P.T. Steve. P.T. Steve is a college writing instructor in New England and a guest blogger at Too Hot to Teach. I tried semester after semester to overcome it—by...

May 10, 2011 Like

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Dirty Little Secrets: Objectivity in Grading?

When we grade, we writing teachers like to pretend that we are robots. Here we are, just objectively sifting through the data, assigning values as though they are self-evident. We calculate the...

May 9, 2011 Like

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Reading for Pleasure?

As Hatepril turns to May and the weather here in the Northeast finally warms, I find suddenly that I have reached the promised land. Grades have been submitted, final committee projects completed...

May 5, 2011 Like

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What to Do with the Last Day of the Semester?

Today’s round of last days was especially tricky. First of all, I’m sick. Can I just say that perusing style blogs, which is usually my zone-out reward, kills me this time of year. I see all these...

Apr 20, 2011 Like

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Let’s Take a Meeting

Last week, I was still in the depths of “da funk” when Thursday, my last day on campus for the week, rolled around. As I left my office for the one meeting standing between me and my weekend, my...

Apr 18, 2011 Like

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An Extra Inch

Ms. Kat’s recent post on fitting a yoga practice into the whirlwind of an adjunct lifestyle has helped me reflect on how my own yoga adventures affect my teaching life. This semester, for the first...

Apr 12, 2011 Like

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Adjunct Fury!

Lately, I’ve noticed an abundance of articles circulating about the trials and tribulations of being an adjunct. I’ve avoided these issues, preferring my ignorance. I prefer not to dwell on the...

Apr 1, 2011 Like

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In Search of Om

After reading ProfKM’s post on Agalloch, I decided to give myself a chili pepper. A chili pepper for going to yoga. It’s that time of the year when you wake up on a Saturday morning to grade 56...

Mar 26, 2011 Like

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Too Hot to Rock? Give Yourself a Chili Pepper

In case you didn’t already know, I’ve been wrestling with a case of the end-of-semester funk. It turns out, a great way to dispel the funk is to break out of your normal routine. Last night, even...

Mar 25, 2011 Like

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Bring in Da Funk: A Crisis in Motivation

It’s THAT time of the year. There are four weeks left in the semester. Yet, there are still 3 projects up in the air for your class. Thanks to the recent time change, waking up at an already too...

Mar 23, 2011 Like

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Too Hot to Teach

Making Reading Social or The Power of Peer Pressure

Dear Online Class: I love you.

Motivation?

Teacher “Branding”: What Flavor are You?

Spring (E) Cleaning: Clearing Away Online Clutter

Conference like a Champion

Write Like You Draw: Achieving Flow

Time to get Meta: Bloggin’ about Bloggin’

Tales of a Temp or How I Spent My Summer Vacation

From the Self Help Shelf: How Setting Goals Saved my Semester

A Resurrection: A Reply Ode to Red Lips and Academics

Peer Review Meltdown 2011

Brave New World

SOS! SOL!

Welcome Back, Me

You’ve Got to Know When to Hold ‘Em: Guilty Pleasures as Teaching Tools

Assignment Writer’s Block

Letting Go: (Not)Responding to Student Work

Pimp My Grade: A Post on Grade Inflation

In Fear of the B+?

The Buddy Problem or: Teaching with Danny Tanner

Dirty Little Secrets: Objectivity in Grading?

Reading for Pleasure?

What to Do with the Last Day of the Semester?

Let’s Take a Meeting

An Extra Inch

Adjunct Fury!

In Search of Om

Too Hot to Rock? Give Yourself a Chili Pepper

Bring in Da Funk: A Crisis in Motivation

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