Implausible Teaching (WisCon 31 event)
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Solo Presentations•607• Saturday, 10:00-11:15 a.m.
At the University of Massachusetts, Boston, the majority of the students haven't been well served by their high schools, and are first-generation Americans or first-generation college students. Laurie J. Marks, who has been teaching there for ten years, says, "It's a bit like being a medic in the trenches during WWI: I have a clear sense of purpose, but I'm shell-shocked, and I wish I had some ammunition." She will explain how the following five words, spoken by one of her mentors in graduate school, have informed her ten years of teaching Freshman English in a public university: "Don't teach writing. Teach students."