Raymond Villegas

This was a great refresher course. This information I have heard before when I first began teaching and then again at conferences. It's nice to be reminded of the basices. I really enjoyed the video lectures given by a teacher for teachers. Although they were short they were effective.

I am a writing instructor, and when I first started teaching, my students would write 2 papers max. The colleges I have worked at always seemed to require at least 4 papers (3 min.) To motivate my students to write, I had to find out who they were and what they were wanting in a writing course. Most of them agreed they wrote better if they picked their own topics rather than following a topic given to them. I listened to what they had to say and now I have beautifully written papers coming in for final grading.  The papers… >>>

I am a writing instructor, and when I first started teaching, my students would write 2 papers max. The colleges I have worked at always seemed to require at least 4 papers (3 min.) To motivate my students to write, I had to find out who they were and what they were wanting in a writing course. Most of them agreed they wrote better if they picked their own topics rather than following a topic given to them. I listened to what they had to say and now I have beautifully written papers coming in for final grading.  The papers… >>>

This was a great refresher course. This information I have heard before when I first began teaching and then again at conferences. It's nice to be reminded of the basices. I really enjoyed the video lectures given by a teacher for teachers. Although they were short they were effective.