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Tables of Contents for In Praise of Pedagogy
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xi
Ken Autrey
Spring Rice Field
xi
Introduction
1
1
Wendy Bishop
Jo'al
1
3
When I was black---Jo'AL Hill
4
1
The True Story of Theme Heaven
5
3
Cross-Cultural Genres
8
2
Here in the New World
10
2
First-Year Writing---Florida
12
1
Homework
13
1
I Send Poems
14
1
How Does a Poem Start?
15
1
Night Songs
16
1
Workshop Memory
17
2
Othering
19
4
Part I: From and For Classrooms
First Night of Class
23
1
Laura Apol
The Poet Meets His Class in the Chemistry
24
1
Lab Ken Autrey
tuesday 8:45
25
1
Joseph H. Ball
The English Teacher's Bad Day
26
1
Grace Bauer
Teaching Poetry: A Way to Grace the World?
27
2
Kelly Cherry
Before Everything
29
2
Devan Cook
Freshman Lit & Comp
31
1
Stephen Corey
english 098
32
1
Phebe Davidson
Childbearing Hips
33
2
Allison Joseph
Workshop Pantoum
35
1
Allison Joseph
Open Letter to My Students
36
2
Kathleen Kirk
Taking the World Literature Class Outside
38
2
Janet McCann
Literacy: Or How I Ended Up at the Old Folks Home
40
3
Anne-Marie Oomen
Watching My Students Write
43
1
Robert Parham
Flattened by Flattery
44
1
Terry Rasmussen
Nervouswork
45
1
William Snyder, Jr.
Preciousness of Imperfection
46
1
William Snyder, Jr.
There Are Miracles Extant In This World
47
1
William Snyder, Jr.
The Portuguese Princess Looks to the East
48
2
Thomas Stein
The Big Up
50
2
Larry Strauss
Logical Fallacies
52
2
Alison Townsend
Perspective
54
1
Patricia Valdata
Stone Dreams
55
2
Jane Elkington Wohl
Teaching Reading
57
4
Jane Elkington Wohl
Part II: Language and the World
The Dream of Teaching
61
1
Ken Autrey
The Scholar
62
1
Grace Bauer
Intro to Poetry
63
1
Steven Bauer
The Death of Reading
64
1
Darrell Fike
Windshield Vipers (Keeping Time)
65
1
Katherine M. Fischer
Wrestle Theory
66
2
Alice George
A Reading
68
1
Holly Iglesias
Teaching in My Sleep
69
1
Kathleen Kirk
Teacher Shot by Student, or The Risk of Overstatement
70
1
Kathleen Kirk
Introduction to Poetry
71
2
Shannon Marquez McGuire
Ignoring the Linguist
73
1
Robert Parham
Reading for the Blind
74
2
Kara Provost
The Teacher
76
1
Tom Romano
A Case for Literature
77
1
Darrell G.H. Schramm
Nostradamus in Heaven
78
2
Sarah Sloane
Playground
80
3
Kate Sontag
Part III: Of Reading, Writing, Teaching, Being Taught
Prepositions in Alabama
83
1
Ken Autrey
Art Lesson
84
3
Craig Challender
Blizzard
87
2
Cynthia Miller Coffel
Art Elective
89
4
Stephen Corey
Chalk Dust and Urban Renewal
93
2
Trista Cornelius
my last glad summer
95
1
Phebe Davidson
Bar Mitzvah Lessons
96
1
Marvin Diogenes
Crescendo
97
2
Katherine M. Fischer
My Bad
99
2
Douglas Goetsch
Puttyroot and Stopcock
101
1
David Graham
First Piano Teacher
102
1
Ava Leavell Haymon
After an Old Picture of School House Children
103
1
Will Hochman
The Autobiography of Tulips
104
1
Holly Iglesias
Deep Blue
105
2
Holly Iglesias
Amphibians Have Feelings Too
107
1
Gerald Locklin
Second Apartment, First-Year Teacher
108
2
Claudia MonPere McIsaac
Teachers' Lounge
110
1
Bill Ransom
Rehabilitating Joseph Adams
111
4
Scott Simpson
Spatial Relations
115
2
Leonora Smith
``...Water and the Word Suicide''
117
1
Kate Sontag
Diction Lesson
118
3
Patricia Valdata
Part IV: Advice and Observations
Compulsion
121
1
Jane Barnes
Flat Out
122
2
Jacqueline Brice-Finch
Advice to a Young Poet
124
1
Kelly Cherry
Reply
125
1
Helen Degen Cohen
Adjunct
126
1
Brock Dethier
Not to Be
127
1
Brock Dethier
Produce
128
1
Darrell Fike
Wildflower Composition
129
1
Melissa Goldthwaite
Just Guessing: A Little Lecture on Ambition
130
1
David Graham
Creative Writing at Jefferson Correctional Institution
131
1
Amorak Huey
Rules of Conduct: Colored Elementary School, 1943
132
1
Allison Joseph
quo vadis, m.f.a.?
133
1
Gerald Locklin
Seven Fables of Teaching and Learning
134
3
Hans Ostrom
Comma Splice
137
1
William M. Ramsey
The Grammarian
138
1
Darrell G.H. Schramm
The Trouble with Writing
139
1
Sarah Sloane
The Five Paragraph Essay
140
2
Leonora Smith
Scenes from the ``Teaching Moment'' Lounge
142
5
Lynna Williams
Part V: Memories of Our Children and Families Learning
Beast on the Brink
147
1
Jane Barnes
Geography Lessons
148
1
Grace Bauer
Everything We Need
149
1
Devan Cook
i'm very Proud of her
150
2
Gerald Locklin
Academic Kids
152
1
Janet McCann
Can You Predict the Past? Can You Remember the Future?
153
1
Janet McCann
Becky's Mirror
154
2
Dean Newman
Brains and Books
156
2
Diane Payne
Fish, Spring, Window
158
2
Leonora Smith
A Rhetoric of Wood
160
4
Michael Spooner X
X Doyle Wesley Walls
162
2
Roses and Tulips
164
5
Jane Elkington Wohl
Part VI: Remembering Those Who Taught Us
A Note About Allen Tate
169
3
Kelly Cherry
To an Ex-Student, On Learning She Is a World-Class Gymnast
172
1
Stephen Corey
Mr. Howard
173
2
Geraldine DeLuca
Mystery and Manners
175
2
Marvin Diogenes
For W. H. Auden and Alain Bombard
177
1
Skip Eisiminger
Highlights
178
2
Douglas Goetsch
Long Overdue Note to My College Professor Who Broke Down and Cried One Morning in 1974 While Teaching Yeats
180
2
David Graham
Seminar
182
2
Shannon Marquez McGuire
The Physics Teacher
184
2
Anne-Marie Oomen
Sister Albert
186
2
Bill Ransom
All Hail Digredi
188
3
Angus Woodward
Afterword: The Art of Pedagogy/The Pedagogy of Art
191
12
David Starkey
The Art of Pedagogy
191
2
Instructions for Composing a Haiku
193
2
Poems, Like Children
195
1
Buttons
196
1
An Elderly Woman Falls Asleep at a Poetry Reading
197
2
The Year My Poetry Became a Fad
199
2
The Pedagogy of Art
201
2
Contributors' Notes
203
10
Acknowledgments
213