Teaching in the two-year college, which was once considered to be a stepping-stone to teaching at a four-year college or university, has become a unique profession in itself. In the years ahead, community colleges should be actively involved in cooperating in developing English curricula. Prospective teachers of English at two-year schools need to…

In order (1) to determine how auxiliaries (lay readers and instructional, clerical, and housekeeping aides) were used in secondary English departments, (2) to determine the reasons for English departments discontinuing the use of auxiliaries, and (3) to evaluate the way auxiliaries were used, questionnaires were sent to two groups: schools using…

This curriculum guide discusses the Burlingame High School English Department policies, procedures, and course offerings (phased English courses and selective/elective course offerings). Minimum requirements and booklists for leveled English, selective booklists and media lists, elective booklists, senior elective booklists, film order…

The focus of this book--an appeal for a reevaluation of the literature teacher's pedagogical goals and methods--is twofold: first, the reasons for the enjoyment of reading literature and suggestions for stimulating in students a love of plays, poetry, and novels; and second, new roles for the teacher. Chapter 1 outlines some of the problems facing…

Common approaches to composition teaching are satirized. (JH)

A departmental chairman must tactfully orchestrate the activities of widely varied personality types to achieve departmental goals.

Stresses the need for English department chairpersons to gather and present information about teaching, to see that some consistent form of faculty evaluation is maintained, and to work at identifying teaching competence and supporting teaching excellence throughout the year. (GW)

Discusses the attitudes of the general public, the educational establishment, and departments of English toward research in composition. (DD)

Examines the typical curriculum in an English department and the place of literary and critical theory within it. (SRT)

Discusses the problems of being a department head and how best to deal with them. (SRT)

Discusses the connections between the study of literary texts, language, and composition and the impact of these connections on English instruction and English programs. (SRT)

Proposes practical suggestions for department chairpersons in dealing with academic deans. Adds some thoughts about the need for more serious continuing education programs at the college level. (NKA)

Responds to Richard Ekman's criticism of poststructuralism and discusses three strands of a poststructuralist English curriculum. (EL)