English 562

Dr.Morillo

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Guidelines for Student Teaching Practicum.  See Syllabus for Your Teaching Day

Teachers:
You will have a timed 20 minutes of class to begin a class on a topic of your choice. You may choose to present the material in lecture, discussion, a mix, using small groups--whatever style you feel will be comfortable for you and effective for the class. Do not assume you can pack a complete class into 20 minutes; rather, assume that you are showing to us all how you would begin to help us all understand the work(s) of your choice from the syllabus.
 Although you have less talking time than you might wish, you do have at your disposal all of the teaching tools you might wish to use in a full class, and are encouraged to use any handouts or study guides you see fit. By all means it will help to direct the class ahead of time, in the class precdeding yours and/or via email (see below) concerning what questions to consider about a text, what sections of texts to focus on. If you have electronic files or sites you wish to use before/and or in your class be sure to get those to me at least one class session in advance of your teaching day. Any HTML files, web pages, URLs, are easy for me to post to the server space your syllabus is in if you give me some lead time..
Generally my best advice is to not try to do too much. It's just fine to do one focused topic well.

You will be graded on teaching fundamentals, including: organization and preparation; clarity; command of material; ability to engage and energize; appropriateness of pitch to your graduate student audience. Your peers have significant input into this grade so don't just direct the lesson at me. I do recognize that for some of you this may be the first teaching you've ever done, and will indeed take that into account.

Students:
No one can guage the effectiveness of a class like the students in it. Consequently, all of you, the students for your peer teachers, are required to submit to me, in writing by or before the next class session, a brief, one-page candid evaluation of the student teacher's degree of success. Please hand these in in class; you may send email or files but only as a backup. As with writing about published work, be respectful but also critical where warranted. These will go only to me but  will, along with my own review of the student teacher, be used to determine the teaching practicum grade for both the teacher and for you, too.  As you know, teaching only works as a bilateral deal, so keep your end of the work up.

Class emails for sending teaching instructions, materials:
Dr. Morillo    morillo@unity.ncsu.edu

Brandon Barber   NCBARBS@msn.com
Aaron Bobick      ambobick@ncsu.edu
Christina Cartwright   cacartwr@unity.ncsu.edu
Suzanna Geiser     suzgeiser@yahoo.com
Heather Lucking   hlluckin@unity.ncsu.edu
Devjani Roy        devjani_roy@yahoo.co
Tom Sowders      tomsowders@hotmail.com
Jennifer Tingern     jktingen@unity.ncsu.edu

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