Improvising Great Classroom Discussion

Classroom Discussion
I was watching a video of several of my students teaching this week. I had to be away for a conference, and they were scheduled to teach that day anyway, so I asked our Center for Teaching Excellence to record it. I would evaluate them later. Although most of the students in the class are planning to be English teachers, it's not an education class. For that reason, I planned to pay closer attention to the content and preparation than to their actual pedagogy.

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