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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Projects for the Council's K-16 Education Committee? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoLooking forward to hearing more about successful collaborations between HS and college instructors. I’m finding that such collaborations are often challenging because of the following barriers, so would love to see the MLA, or any organization, come up with strategies to address them:
1. HS instructors do not get release time to work on c…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic Projects for the Council's K-16 Education Committee? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoWhat would members of this Discussion Group like the Council’s K-16 Education Committee to do? As Chair of that Committee, I have an idea for a project that would involve establishing partnerships among college and secondary school teachers to discuss implementing the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts; how could college t…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic Sample Common Core tests in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoIn response to Rosemary Feal’s post, I’d like to call your attention to Elizabeth Phillips’ op ed. in today’s New York Times, “We Need to Talk About the Test”: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/opinion/the-problem-with-the-common-core.html?_r=0
Again, as at previous stages of the CCSSI process, the great potential of the educational reforms is…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoThank you, David, for the link to Elfrieda H. Hiebert’s research report and for the Text Project Web page link too.
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP: MLA15 Teaching Memoir in the forum
Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoReading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations invited exploring the…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CFP MLA15: Teaching Writing in Context in the forum
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA
While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a learning…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months agoPlease check the Two Year College Discussion Group Forum and Blog pages for new Calls for Papers for MLA 2015!
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic CCHA (MLA Allied organization) CFP for MLA15 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Reading Memory: Approaches to Teaching the Memoir: MLA 2015 Vancouver BC</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/CCHA Allied Member of the MLA
contact email: sdonohue@cocc.edu
Autobiography and memoir have become canonical staples, but also contested sites for discussing the boundaries of fictional and non-fictional self-representation. Presentations…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue started the topic Two Year College Discussion Group CFP for MLA 15 in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 11 years, 11 months ago<b>Writing in Context: Content Based First Year Composition (MLA 2015 Jan 8-11, Vancouver, BC)</b>
Stacey Lee Donohue/Discussion Group on the Two Year College/MLA
contact email:
While composition is often a standalone course, some colleges offer it as discipline-specific writing, either as a linked course or integrated into a…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue replied to the topic Hiring in the forum
The Two-Year College on MLA Commons 12 years agoWonderful news, Elizabeth! Community Colleges in Oregon, too, have openings for full time, tenure track faculty in English. After years of double digit enrollment growth, and not enough of an increase in tenure track faculty, we are playing catch up.
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago“NOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the Two Year College Discussion Group
The Executive Committee for the Two Year College Discussion Group encourages members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other community college faculty member (full or part time) to serve on the executive committee. The term is four years. The group is…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWelcome, Linda Weinhouse, from the Community College of Baltimore County, to the Executive Committee of the Two Year College Discussion Group!
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