To Teach - Or Not to Teach - As We Were Taught

James Lang, Ph.D.
Department of English, Assumption College

Tuesday, 13 September 2005
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Fuller Labs 320

The talk considers the extent to which our own ideas about teaching, and our teaching practices, have been influenced by our experiences as students. Many new teachers, understandably, fall into teaching practices which were effective for them when they were students. Drawing upon my book, Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year (2005), as well as my own personal experience, I will argue that, in order to become the most effective possible teachers we can, sometimes we have to learn to abandon the conceptions about teaching we learned when we were students.

James M. Lang is the author of Life on the Tenure Track: Lessons from the First Year (Johns Hopkins UP, 2005), and writes a regular column about academic life for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He is an assistant professor of English at Assumption College.

Host: Michael Gennert

Refreshments will be served.

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