teaching | Marginalia

For an educator it is the greatest reward to see your students interested in a lesson, engaged thoughtfully in their work, and demonst..

Going to graduate school full time, working various part-time jobs, and student teaching every day, it can be hard to find the space o..

It’s not always about being behind the camera. Sometimes we need to be in front of the classroom.

After a very busy January Term at Columbia, lots of changes in my life, and most importantly 16 classes and countless papers, lesson p..

If you’ve followed my past posts, you know that last semester I took the Composition Theory and Praxis course. Basically it is a gradu..

And just like that, winter break is over and we begin “Spring” semester. I used quotes on Spring, because obviously it’s still ridicul..

This is the week I show up to teach and, after several minutes of weird, alien air in which my first-year writing students are squirmi..

Over the past few weeks, I have just completed the 30 required observation/participation hours for this semester at the secondary leve..

As pre-service teachers we get the advantage of learning in the field, and this comes with some pretty awesome perks. We get to see w..

So, here we are at the end of September, the month for me that is a double whammy. I started back at Columbia full-time the same exact..