Reading should be fun! To someone who grew up with her nose in a book, as I did, this is an obvious fact, but to the vast majority of my students, it is a foreign concept. So when I first started teaching, I realized one of my primary missions was to try to encourage the […]
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Freshmen whine a lot. They whine when assignments are given; they whine when someone else got the stability ball chair first; they whine when they are required to be separated from the friend with whom they were playing a “poke me, poke you” game because of the disruption to the class. One of their biggest […]
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