First semester : graduate students, teaching writing, and the challenge of middle ground / Jessica Restaino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Restaino, Jessica, 1976-

Series:

Studies in writing & rhetoric

CCCC studies in writing & rhetoric

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Rhetoric--Study and teaching.

English language.

English teachers--Training of.

English teachers.

Physical Description:

xv, 141 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, [2012]

Summary:

First Semester brings together the details of four new graduate students' first classroom experiences teaching composition. Over the course of a semester, Jessica Restaino acted as a participant observer and gathered rich qualitative data from course observations, interviews, and correspondence with the students. This unprecedented study looks at a widely used but typically underprepared teaching resource in writing programs nationwide and provides a challenging theoretical approach to understanding and improving the preparation of graduate student teachers in the writing classroom. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Arendt, Writing Teachers, and Beginnings 1

2 Labor and Endlessness: Necessity and Consumption in the First Semester 22

3 Teachers-as-Students: Work and Action in the Middle Space 53

4 Thinking What We Are Doing: Knowledge Making in the Trenches 106.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780809330812

0809330814

9780809330829

0809330822

OCLC:

727047906