On the Teaching Track
Insights on teaching, learning, & faculty development
Sonnet Puzzles: Active Learning in the Literature Classroom
In this active learning exercise, students work collaboratively to reverse-engineer a sonnet, focusing on the poem's formal characteristics to predict the correct order of the lines in the original composition.
5 Essential Resources for Teaching Poetry in Introductory College Courses
Are you a veteran poetry teacher looking for new ideas, or are you preparing to teach poetry at the college level for for the first time? Use these resources to jumpstart your lesson planning this semester.
Lesson Plan Databases & Paragraph Maps
This week, I’m sharing how I use Notion to organize my lesson plans, as well as a brief glimpse at paragraph mapping, one of my latest open educational resources.
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