Join thousands of K-12 teachers, college faculty, administrators, and other education professionals as they gather to hear award-winning speakers, attend idea-packed sessions, share best practices, and test the latest teaching materials at the 99th NCTE Annual Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! More info . . .
These sessions are of particular interest to two-year college educators and are all sponsored by the Two-Year College English Association.
East Asian Literature: Teaching Poetry and Novels
A.59 - Friday, November 20 - 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
This panel will focus on the East Asian meditative poetry of HanShan and Ko Un and the contemporary Chinese novel and illustrate ways to integrate the works into World Literature courses.
Teaching the Politics of Voice in Southern Women Writers
B.61 - Friday, November 20 - 11:00 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
This session will focus on race, gender, class, and cultural issues of classic southern women writers.
Multilingual Student Populations: Opportunities and Challenges
C.57 - Friday, November 20 - 12:30 p.m.-1:45 p.m.
This session will examine the diversity of multilingual students in both credit and non-credit programs in higher education. Panelists will discuss programs designed to reach out to the growing numbers of international students as well as U.S. resident students who grew up using languages other than English.
World Literature: Teaching the Classics and New Voices
D.57 - Friday, November 20 - 2:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m.
Including literary voices from across the world, the presenters will discuss how each incorporates transnational literatures in the classroom. Panelists offer representative literatures from Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia as explorations of national and cultural identities.
Teaching in the Time of War: From the Classics to Contemporary Voices
E.54 - Friday, November 20 - 4:00 p.m.-5:15 p.m.
Panelists will use World War I, the Cold War, and Cambodia as backdrops for studying remembrance and survival in fiction, non-fiction, and film.
Teaching the Difficult Text Pedagogies of Creative Reading at Community Colleges of the City University of New York
G.56 - Saturday, November 21 - 9:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
In his short essay "On Reading", surrealist poet, playwright, and filmmaker Jean Cocteau posits that we aren't really reading unless it is a difficult experience. This panel proposes three lessons in teaching the special pleasures of engaging the difficult literary text.
Unifying the Processes of Reading, Responding, Writing, and Evaluating in the Community College Classroom
I.40 - Saturday, November 21 - 1:15 p.m.-2:30 p.m.
These classroom demonstrations take participants from Reading Circles as entry into the text; to using informal writing as a first step in textual analysis; to bridging the gap between informal and formal responses to text; and to positioning students as readers and assessors of their own texts.
Hip Hop Ain’t Simply about the Hook or the Beat
K.56 - Saturday, November 21 - 4:15 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
This presentation looks at hip hop's sampling and remixing as a way of reading and writing employed by students historically looked at as illiterate. Participants in this session will be asked for their readings and interpretation of audio and visual images read and used in hip hop and student writing.
Connecting and Communicating Professional Networking
L.06 - Sunday, November 22 - 8:30 a.m.-9:45 a.m.
This panel of experts provides strategies and opportunities to connect, communicate, and network.
Hitching Rides on ‘Frigates’ Bound for ‘Lands Away’: Preparing Students for College through Rigorous Reading
M.43 - Sunday, November 22 - 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Three students and their former English teacher report back from their first years as university students. These students will share with session attendees the practical strategies that worked in their high school education to prepare them to be readers and writers ready to tackle the fierce demands of university-level literacy.
Scaffolding Reading and Writing Assignments for Student Success
M.33 - Sunday, November 22 - 11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Classroom teachers will demonstrate strategies that empower all students, including English language learners, to meet the demands of college-level reading and writing assignments. By writing in Writer's Notebooks, actively reading paired non-fiction and fiction selections, and participating in discussions, students gain crucial critical thinking, analytical reading, and argumentative writing skills.