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While many of my teaching materials -- syllabi, assignments, resources-are
available online at this site(http://www.u.arizona.edu/~danika/prof/course.html),
I have included here a sampling of some of my general assignments, including
some resources that include student interaction on those assignments. These
syllabi and assignment samples are designed to demonstrate my general approach
to teaching and, I hope, a bit about my students' responses to my approach.
I had thought to include context paragraphs, linking the assignments with
my pedagogy, but I realize those links are made within the assignment sheets
themselves, as a guiding principle of my pedagogy is to make my pedagogy apparent
at all times. The examples I am including are among my more successful teaching
ventures, but I hope these examples also demonstrate that my teaching is always
under review and revision, even during the course I am teaching. For example,
one syllabus example is actually a revised syllabus and assignment sheet that
I gave my students, and includes my own reflection on why I made the revisions
I did. The transcript of my exchange with a student over her writing assignment
reflects that my assignments do not stand alone or as self-evident, but require
constant negotiation with individual students. It is difficult to represent
one's own teaching in bits and pieces in a portfolio, but these snapshots
perhaps provide a sense of how I perceive my own work.
List of Samples:
1) Syllabus for NewStart Summer Course
2) "Revised" Syllabus for
English 102, Local Histories course
3) English 102 Assignment sheet: Rhetorical
Analysis of a Local History
4) Online Conference with Student
regarding Rhetorical Analysis of a Local History Assignment
5) "Collide-oscope" Assignment
6) General Assignment: Critique of
a Technology