Last fall I returned to the classroom after a 5-year hiatus working for the National Endowment for the Humanities. I shared over the summer that I’m still deciding among a few different writing priorities. Nothing is quite ready even for this blog, but as I settle back into a teaching role, I have of course
Having worked with the Teaching Resource Center at UVA, and being generally interested in pedagogy, I’ve attended a lot of talks about teaching strategies. One particular anecdote from such a talk has stuck with me. The presenter (a psychology professor) was approached at the end of a semester by a student who had been generally