- Students are more tired now.
- No more chalk boards, most of the time.
- Textbooks used to be dense black holes of print. Now they look like web pages.
- Class sizes have gone up.
- Even with web sites that do automatic bibliographies, students still can't write decent research papers.
- Capitalization problems have overtaken the ubiquitous comma splice as the number one grammatical problem.
Friday, April 22, 2011
21 years of teaching so far
I realized last night that I have been teaching English for 21 years now, in Africa and Russia, and at Kent State University, Saint Mary's University, and Rochester Community and Technical College. The epiphany was quite a shock. I've been teaching a long time! What has changed in the classroom since1990?
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