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Confronting and Adapting to Contextual Factors during a Pandemic at the End of a Condensed Term
This was not an ordinary semester: personally, externally, politically, institutionally, virtually. But let’s start with personal...

John Constantine Tobin
Nov 21, 20204 min read
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Teaching During an Election Year: Institutional, Geographic and Political Contexts in Composition
Recently in my pedagogy course, we read “Here They Do This, There They Do That: Latinas/Latinos Writing Across Institutions” Todd Ruecker...

John Constantine Tobin
Nov 8, 20204 min read
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In the Composition Classroom, ‘Writing’ Is a Reductive Term
As the weeks go by, I am further exposed to what composition can be. The singular notion that the space I occupy in my classroom is as a...

John Constantine Tobin
Oct 18, 20203 min read
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Course Planning, Teaching Observation, Subconscious Assessment and the Persistence of Time
For newly minted teachers of ENG101 in the doctoral program at Southern Miss, the first half of the course is mapped out in a general...

John Constantine Tobin
Oct 3, 20204 min read
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An Emergent Composition Pedagogy: The Interconnectedness of the Graduate Student
Each day these concepts from my doctorate become more and more interconnected with one another. It’s a weekly inundation of theories...

John Constantine Tobin
Sep 19, 20204 min read
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College Professors Don’t Know How to Teach ...amirite?
During my undergraduate days, I remember a common saying among my classmates that college professors don’t know how to teach. This...

John Constantine Tobin
Sep 5, 20203 min read
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Teaching Begins Anew ...Virtually
It’s been two years since I last taught College Composition at the University of Baltimore for my MFA degree. This week, I stepped into...

John Constantine Tobin
Aug 22, 20203 min read
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