Class Notes
A blog about the art of teaching, with new posts each Tuesday by Paula Marantz Cohen, a distinguished professor of English at Drexel University and the author of the novels Jane Austen in Scarsdale or Love, Death and the SATs and What Alice Knew: A Most Curious Tale of Henry James and Jack the Ripper.
Tracking - Feb. 21, 2011
Several years ago, I taught a freshman honors English course in which I asked students how they thought they’d qualified for the class.
Previous posts
- Tracking
- Teaching Creative Writing
- Social vs. Private Good in Education
- Nature, Nurture, Fortune, Will
- John Dewey
- Life Coaches
- The Globalized Recipe for Education
- The Esthetics of Teaching
- Teaching the Domestic Novel
- Orson Welles on Reading Shakespeare Aloud
- Some Thoughts on the Marriage Plot
- Chinese Starter Course
- As You Like It
- The Vocation of Teaching and the Penn State Scandal
- Writer’s Block
- Teach for America
- Learning from My Mother
- Food and Learning
- Older Students
- The Small Orchestra Class
- The Tidal Wave of the New
- Teaching with Peter
- Learning and its Limits
- Habit
- In Pursuit of the Headless Horseman
