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=Welcome to Dr. Jacquelyn Culpepper's website for EMAT 645.A02, Teaching English in High School=

Poet and novelist Nikos Kazantzakis's definition of a true teacher: //“True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross;// //then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.” --Nikos Kazantzakis//

====The aim for this course is to help Secondary M.A.T. English students understand what they "need to know and be in order to enter secondary English classrooms with confidence and [to] engage the students waiting there with purposive, dynamic lessons" (Milner, et al., 2012, p. xiii).====

====The textbook for this course is **Milner, Milner, and Mitchell's //Bridging English// (2012), 5th edition. New York: Pearson.** This text can be a valuable asset for beginning teachers of English because it provides its readers not simply a general introduction to the teaching of secondary English, but a comprehensive, anchoring reference with which to begin their professional libraries. Be sure to use Milner's free companion website []. Also, you will find the following website (a digital textbook) by Jim Burke to be a valuable resource: [| http://englishcompanion.com/resources/digital-textbook]====

====During this course, students will create a wiki to use as their sample "teacher website." Toward the end of this course, students will post their sample website on this wiki on the "Members' wiki" page.====

====Students in EMAT 645, Summer 2015, will find the requirements for this course on the course's Blackboard site and will turn in all assignments via Blackboard. They will also meet the LiveText requirements by July 7, 2015.====