ECCTYC has set the date, location, and theme of its next conference. Mark your calendars and pass on to your departments. More information to come.
CONFERENCE: ECCTYC 2009: Pathways to Community
DATES: October 22-24, 2009
LOCATION: The Pasadena Hilton
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Welcome to the ECCTYC 2007 Conference: California Cultures: Changing Teaching, Teaching Change. ECCTYC invites you to come to Burlingame to rejuvenate, connect with colleagues from throughout the state, and take part in the scholarly discussions surrounding this year’s theme. Our 2007 conference celebrates the rich diversity of culture within our state. It also highlights emerging pedagogies that are transforming our classrooms. From the northern to the central to the southern regions of California, participants will have the chance to share their regional personalities as well as consider the cultures of their colleges, student populations, and classrooms.California Cultures: Changing Teaching, Teaching Change will include a variety of panels, workshops, and round table discussions that address developments in higher education today as well as showcase teaching techniques, technology, and innovations. As with all of our past conferences, we welcome any topic of...
The ECCTYC 2005 Conference in Long Beach focused on The Teacher Scholar: Serving Our Students and the English Profession. The following summaries are a sampling of the breakout sessions offered at this conference. Do you have a memory of one of the sessions? Your comments and additions are welcome here.
“Accessing Academic Literacy in College: Student Pathways”
Presentation by Genevieve Patthey-Chavez and Tammy Robinson of Los Angeles City College and Joan Thomas-Spiegel of Los Angeles Harbor College
The presenters shared the results of their impressive study of students’ pathways through remedial and college English sequences in nine different institutions. Having completed this ambitious and highly informative research project, they have concluded that students would benefit from “greater integration into collegiate culture to learn to improve their study skills and academic literacy.” They suggest that students get to know their teachers and their teachers’ expectations (SLO’s), and that “inter-disciplinary and intra disciplinary...
