My name is Matt Fouts and I am currently a TA in the English department at Northern Illinois University. The purpose of this blog is to keep a running record of my reflections concerning my composition classes for a semester. It is my hope that a continuing reflection will produce, in its wholeness, something that is valuable in the realm of teaching composition, or at least valuable to my own teaching.
I came up with the idea for creating this blog after reading an article stressing the importance of reflection in the teaching of composition. I don't now remember the name of the article and I have currently lost the book in which it was reprinted. (Any regular readers of this blog will quickly learn that I am disorganized and often lose things.) Anyways, the point of the article was that reflection, while important for the person who is reflecting, is also important as a tool for other composition teachers. I guess the idea is that it is a written version of the kind of idea sharing that occurs within any first year composition office.
My goal is to write a reflection of some kind for every day that I teach during the fall semester of 2007. During that time, I invite anybody interested to read the blog and comment if they like. At the end of the semseter, I will read through the blog again and make a determination as to the value of the project.
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