Documentary Project

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We hope you will participate in this documentary project! We are excited to hear what you have to say about teaching writing in Mississippi and the Memphis area.

  • Please read and sign the release form before recording your responses.
  • Please identify yourself first, including your name and the name of the institution where you teach.
  • You may choose which questions to answer in your video response – do not feel obligated to answer them all, but focus on a few which you find particularly compelling, thought-provoking, or worth discussing.
  • We particularly would like variety in respondents – we’d love to have good representation from high schools, community colleges and four-year universities.

Questions

1. Why do you teach writing?
2. What do you think is the most challenging thing about teaching writing at your institution?
3. What challenges/opportunities does the context of our teaching – in Mississippi and the Memphis area – present?
4. What do you wish students knew before they set foot in your class for the first time?
5. What advice would you give a new teacher who is about to begin their first semester of teaching writing at your institution?
6. What do you wish teachers at other institutions (i.e., community colleges and four-year universities, if you are a high school teacher; high schools and four-year universities, if you are a community college teacher, etc.) knew about how you teach your students?