I’ve been teaching for six years now. I’ve taught in different settings: a first-year college classroom, an adult ESL program in a city college, and an intensive…
Mark L
Inspiration and motivation for reflection, reevaluation, and assessment can come from anything. Personally, I find the out-of-nowhere and seemingly random opportunities for reflection to be the most…
This past year I have been working with curriculum coordinators in DePaul’s English Language Academy (ELA), DePaul’s Intensive English Program, to form a more complete understanding of ELA writers and…
A few years back I attended a presentation from a tenure-track candidate in DePaul’s WRD program. I knew the candidate, Dr. Schneider, well—I had taken courses with…
During our most recent team meeting, we got a bit distracted. While our conversation normally spans many different (and often times odd) topics, today’s distraction was special.  We…
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I walked along the stalls of cows. There were different breeds–most I didn’t know, but I could name a few (Hereford, Jersey, and of course the Black…
Last week, I had a conversation with a fellow UCWbLer and the UCWbL director about working with multilingual writers. We discussed the different approaches to tutoring and…
As new members of a team and relatively new peer tutors, Shelley M. and I (Emily Po.) reflected on some of our first shifts as UCWbLers, appointments…
As students, teachers, and writers, we know many things. We know about events. We know information and data and facts. Most likely, we are familiar with this…
Spring weather has finally decided to come to Chicago, and it was just in time for the CMWR’s Walk and Talk to Chinatown.