Pedagogy Seminar I

Required for first-year Ph.D students in English. Prerequisite for teaching required for Ph.D. students in English and Modern Thought and Literature. Preparation to enter professional educational practice as a Stanford TA in the department of English, including developing knowledge of how people learn, especially how college students learn, familiarity with the Stanford English Undergraduate curriculum and knowledge of English Literature curricular goals, and the fundamentals of teaching practice, including research-based practices for classroom management of discussion sections, for assessment, for teaching diverse learners, and for the ongoing analysis and improvement of one's own teaching. Emphasizes the development of pedagogical content knowledge in English and the development of a teaching philosophy as such.