About the Book
This provocative and sometimes humorous collection of essays--written by college writing teachers for college writing teachers--explores seldom-discussed issues to help TAs develop confidence in overcoming classroom challenges. Teachers, both seasoned and new to the profession, create a dialogue by sharing their rich and varied experiences and responses to classroom and department situations.
Table of Contents:
I. Approaching the Classroom Kenya M. Thompkins, Your Culture, Their Politics: What a Teacher Should Know When Entering a New Writing Program Kate Brown, "We're not in Kansas Anymore": Negotiating a Teaching Philosophy Sandra L. Giles and Tom C. Hunley, What to Do When You're Not Really New Pavel Zemliansky, Fadi Al-Issa, Hsi-Ling Huang, and Masood Raja, When You Look and Sound "Un-American": Advice for Foreign-Born Teachers of Writing Responses Chris Anson, Taking Off Amy Goodburn, A View from Writing-Program Administration Thomas Bligh, Blind Spots Carrie Leverenz, Critical Self-Reflection in Teaching II. Inside Out Carlyn C. Maddox, Voices in Progress: Creating Confidence in the Writing Classroom Amy L. Hodges, Am I a Failure? Coping with Challenges in the Classroom Juli Hong, If I Had a Penis and a Mustache Kristi Marie Steinmetz, "What Are You Looking At?" Teacher as Stand-Up Comedian Jay Szczepanski, Reasonable Relationships: Gay Teachers and Straight Classrooms Rita Mae Reese and Brandy T. Wilson, We Teach Alone: The Lesbian Instructor in Academia's Lonely Groves Edward Tarkington, "Leave the Office Door Open, Please": The Young, the Restless, and the Teaching Assistant Responses Shirley K. Rose, Teaching beyond the Happy Ending? Brock Dethier, Rereading Experience Andrew Cohen, I'm Looking at You--Now What? David Wallace, Adeeeeeeeeena Kathleen Black Yancey, On Teaching and Its Contentments, or Teaching as Process, After All Amanda Fleming, Teaching on Planet Earth: Inside the Classroom, Outside the Vacuum III. Beyond the Classroom Maggie Gerrity, Finding the Twenty-fifth Hour Dan Melzer and Paul Reifenheiser, The Art of Academic Diplomacy: How to Finesse Departmental Politics as a Grad Student Laura Newton, Staying in Town: Life after the Program Gay Lynn Crossley and Kim Haimes-Korn, Surviving Alienation: How Junior Faculty Reconnected with the Classroom and Why They Need To Responses Dana C. Elder, Teacher-Scholars Kathleen Ashman, Tips from a Traveling Composition Instructor Greg Beaumont, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go Resa Crane Bizzaro, Stepping into the Minefield; Employment in and beyond the Classroom Douglas Hesse, On Advice beyond Being Smart and Working Hard Responses to the Collection as a Whole Irwin Weiser, Realistic Idealism Roxanne Mountford, The Character of a Teacher Appendix Possibilities for Your Teaching Bookshelf Contributors
Review :
I. Approaching the Classroom Kenya M. Thompkins, Your Culture, Their Politics: What a Teacher Should Know When Entering a New Writing Program Kate Brown, "We're not in Kansas Anymore": Negotiating a Teaching Philosophy Sandra L. Giles and Tom C. Hunley, What to Do When You're Not Really New Pavel Zemliansky, Fadi Al-Issa, Hsi-Ling Huang, and Masood Raja, When You Look and Sound "Un-American": Advice for Foreign-Born Teachers of Writing Responses Chris Anson, Taking Off Amy Goodburn, A View from Writing-Program Administration Thomas Bligh, Blind Spots Carrie Leverenz, Critical Self-Reflection in Teaching II. Inside Out Carlyn C. Maddox, Voices in Progress: Creating Confidence in the Writing Classroom Amy L. Hodges, Am I a Failure? Coping with Challenges in the Classroom Juli Hong, If I Had a Penis and a Mustache Kristi Marie Steinmetz, "What Are You Looking At?" Teacher as Stand-Up Comedian Jay Szczepanski, Reasonable Relationships: Gay Teachers and Straight Classrooms Rita Mae Reese and Brandy T. Wilson, We Teach Alone: The Lesbian Instructor in Academia's Lonely Groves Edward Tarkington, "Leave the Office Door Open, Please": The Young, the Restless, and the Teaching Assistant Responses Shirley K. Rose, Teaching beyond the Happy Ending? Brock Dethier, Rereading Experience Andrew Cohen, I'm Looking at You--Now What? David Wallace, Adeeeeeeeeena Kathleen Black Yancey, On Teaching and Its Contentments, or Teaching as Process, After All Amanda Fleming, Teaching on Planet Earth: Inside the Classroom, Outside the Vacuum III. Beyond the Classroom Maggie Gerrity, Finding the Twenty-fifth Hour Dan Melzer and Paul Reifenheiser, The Art of Academic Diplomacy: How to Finesse Departmental Politics as a Grad Student Laura Newton, Staying in Town: Life after the Program Gay Lynn Crossley and Kim Haimes-Korn, Surviving Alienation: How Junior Faculty Reconnected with the Classroom and Why They Need To Responses Dana C. Elder, Teacher-Scholars Kathleen Ashman, Tips from a Traveling Composition Instructor Greg Beaumont, All Dressed Up and Nowhere to Go Resa Crane Bizzaro, Stepping into the Minefield; Employment in and beyond the Classroom Douglas Hesse, On Advice beyond Being Smart and Working Hard Responses to the Collection as a Whole Irwin Weiser, Realistic Idealism Roxanne Mountford, The Character of a Teacher Appendix Possibilities for Your Teaching Bookshelf Contributors
