Teaching One Moment At A Time

by Skorczewski, Dawn M.

• ISBN13: 9781558494954
• ISBN10: 1558494952
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Summary

Looks at how the relationship between a teacher and student provides the basis for effective teaching in the writing classroom.

Author Biography

Dawn M. Skorczewski is Director of University Writing and Associate Professor of English at Brandeis University.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	IX
INTRODUCTION	1	(14)
CHAPTER ONE FROM PLAYING THE ROLE TO BEING YOURSELF	15	(23)
Becoming the Teacher in the Writing Classroom
CHAPTER TWO THE FREEZE FRAME	38	(23)
Ways of Reading Classroom Discussion
CHAPTER THREE WHY DON'T THEY GET IT?	61	(20)
Transference and the Writing Assignment
CHAPTER FOUR "EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN IDEAS"	81	(21)
Responding to Cliché in Student Writing
CHAPTER FIVE LESSONS FROM POETRY AND PSYCHOANALYSIS	102	(21)
Negotiating Authority in the Classroom
CHAPTER SIX SHOULD THE TEACHER BE THE TEXT?	123	(22)
Self-Revelation in the Classroom
WORKS CITED	145