Welcome to the CASLL list, Pamela --
Your context for teaching sounds like a challenge in any terms, and hearing
about it at Inkshed 20 would enlarge our usual emphasis on university
culture. I hope your example encourages others to talk about non-standard
types of teaching too.
Margaret Procter
University of Toronto
Pamela Young wrote:
>
> Hello, everyone. I am a recent addition to the CASLL listserv and would
> like to submit a proposal for the Inkshed conference. Since the context
> in which I teach communication skills is likely very different from
> anyone in an academic setting, I'm wondering if my context would be of
> interest to you.
>
> For the last eight years, I have been teaching adult high school
> upgrading in a college in Edmonton. The students bring with them
> personal contexts which include backgrounds characterized by low
> self-esteem, poverty, abuse, learning difficulties and health issues.
> They are then expected to establish a career goal to be eligible for
> Student Finance Board educational grants and to take only those courses
> which will advance them quickly towards that goal. We then slot them
> into the appropriate English course, which is based on the Alberta high
> school curriculum, which is literature-based and written for 15-17 year
> olds. You can probably already see how some of this impacts the context
> in which I teach reading, writing, listening and speaking. Interested in
> hearing more at the conference?
>
> Pamela Young
>
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