My Ever Evolving Teaching Philosophy

I think that the biggest change to my teaching philosophy is that I don't believe in grading quite as harshly as I used to. While I still think that nothing prompts a student to want to brush up on their writing skills more than a low grade on a paper, in general I do not give low grades like I had thought I would. Instead, I make sure to make copious comments on the papers that I grade. Whether that works or not, I know that I at least read the comments that my professors leave for me and benefit from them, so hopefully the freshmen will too.

After researching information on logic as it relates to composition for my video, I think that I will definitely teach about logic in my classes more so than I had thought I would when the class began. I know that after reading about logical fallacies, I have become better able to explain why the arguments and structure of the freshman comp papers need to be fixed. The question will be how I will effectively incorporate this into the class since studies done on logic in the classroom have for the most part shown that it did not have a real impact on student writing.