PEDABLOGUE
A personal inquiry into the scholarship of teaching by Michael Arnzen
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- On Sabbatical
I am going on sabbatical for the full 2006-7 academic year, in order to secure time to develop my next novel. While I intend to keep researching and reflecting on teaching during that time, I've decided to put Pedablogue on hiatus until August 2007, when I return to full-time teaching.... - COLLEGE STUDENTS AND TELEVISION
Next week, April 24-30th, is TV-Turnoff Week. Take a look at Adbusters' audacious coverage of the event and, if you agree with the cause, spread the word. My honor's seminar in Thinking and Writing at Seton Hill University is using this week to perform an assigned "activism" project which asks... - College Professor: The Second Best Job in America?
On cable news this morning, I caught a special report from CNN/Money Magazine on the "Best Jobs in America." And while I expected to see something like "software engineer" come in first place, I was very surprised to find "college professor" ranked 2nd in the nation, for "best job"! What's... - Tickling the Elmo
At Seton Hill University, our "smart classrooms" are equipped with these wonderful document projectors, called ELMOs. "ELMO" is the name of the company that makes these "visual presenters," but on our campus we use the term affectionately as a pet name for these two armed wonders. They work by... - Gifts for Professors
Hi Michael, I found your website by putting the phrase "recommendation letter appreciation gift" into Google. After reading your blog on writing recommendation letters I felt compelled to email you and ask you my question. A former professor of mine wrote a recommendation letter on my behalf for a... - You Gotta Teach this Essay!
You Gotta Teach this Essay! is a new weblog (from the editors of Brevity), which allows teacher to recommend short, creative non-fiction and interesting memoirs for the classroom (especially, I'd imagine, the college writing classroom). A good resource with lots of good reads: this blog exists to share information on... - How do you challenge and motivate gifted students?
Edutopia magazine -- published by the George Lucas Educational Foundation -- publishes a neat regular department called, "Sage Advice": a collection of tips from teachers in answer to a posed question. The latest issue's question is: How do you challenge and motivate gifted students? You can read my answer in... - Getting Tenure
Happy news. I received tenure in my position as Associate Professor of English at Seton Hill University this week. I'm grateful. To mark the occasion, soon I'll be writing letters to the important teachers I've had in my life, just to share the good news and to let them know... - Take an Activity Break
Hot on the heels of my posting about how to make lectures more permeable and interactive, Richard Reis' wonderful resource, Tomorrow's Professor, has posted a very helpful essay advocating the use of "Activity Breaks" to enhance and increase class participation. Since the attention span of almost all students is between... - The Permeable Lecture
In one of my classes this morning, I caught one student repeatedly turning to another and talking. I couldn't tell what they were talking about -- the weekend? the weather? or was it related to my discussion point? -- but I interrupted anyway, as I usually do, to remind the... - The Interplay Between School and College
Just received this news about an interesting forum on the dynamics between different levels of school, so I'm spreading the word: The Chronicle of Higher Education will next month publish School & College, a special report that will explore the interplay between primary, secondary, and higher education. The publication will... - What's On Your Office Door?
1. If you peer through the frosted window, you'll see that I use a stickie note that says "Be Right Back -- Please Wait!" that I keep at the ready, in case I need to step out. 2. Promotional postcard for my novel, Play Dead. 3. A Gary Larson... - The "Dissent-O" Writer's Worskhop
I'm teaching an advanced creative writing course this semester, and for the past few weeks we've been having full-class workshops of short fiction. The teacher's role here is to facilitate collaborative learning across the class, by having students share their editorial assessment of stories with an eye toward helping a... - Crunching the One Hour Class
For the past -- what? -- seven years or so, I've been spoiled. Virtually all my classes have been either hour-and-a-halfers (i.e., a "Tuesday/Thursday" schedule) or 3 hour night classes. But this term I've got a pair of one hour (Mon/Wed/Fri) writing classes. Make that 50 minutes each, with 10... - A Few Thinkpieces: PopFic | Specialization | Work
I'm trying not to blog until I finish writing a short story I've promised to an anthology editor. But I thought I'd post a few links to interesting reading I did online this winter, relevant to teaching. Student Pressure and Your Average English Department by Sanford Pinsker. The 'Irascible Professor'...
