COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
Search the online database of sessions to begin planning your 2024 NCTE Annual Convention schedule!
NCTE’s College Section represents a wide diversity of experiences, reflected by a variety of Convention offerings.
You’ll find sessions presented by members active in our English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) group that address the needs of those who work in teacher education at the college level. There are also sessions pertinent to teaching English in the two-year college, assessment in composition courses, first year writing, and current research in the field. If you teach college English, you’ll be intrigued by a range of interesting sessions on composition, literature, reading, and communication. There’s truly something for everyone!
What kinds of sessions can I attend?
Throughout the Convention there are nearly 300 sessions designated of interest to college-level educators. Here are a few of the topics:
• Planning with Purpose: Nuts and Bolts for New College Teachers
• The Dilemma of (Dis)Comfort: Human-Centered Approaches to Navigating the Transition to First-Year Writing
• Writing as Assemblage: Designing Culturally Relevant DBL/PBL Classrooms
• Teacher Mentoring and Community Building
• Foregrounding Humanity in Assessment: Changing Assessment Practices to Change Students’ Lives
• Formal Writing Instructional Strategies
• The Value of the Misreading: When Getting It Wrong Is Getting It Right
• Aiding the Transition to College Writing: A Community College Summer Institute for High School English Teachers
• “Impossible Things before Breakfast”: Chatting with Victorian “Characters” in British Literature Using ChatGPT
• Leading with Our Humanities in Academia: Reflections of Teachers and Scholars of Color
• The Write Way Forward: Success with a Blended Teaching Pedagogy on the Modern University Campus
• Moving beyond the Classroom to Change the World: Reflections from the Field
• Practical Strategies for Supporting Postsecondary Readers
• Writing for Community: How to Engage Community College Students in Active Learning and Activism
• Consent and Writing Pedagogy: A Hope for Human Connections
I’m a Teacher Educator—Are there sessions for me?
Of course! The English Language Arts Teacher Educators (ELATE) group puts together a special program with hundreds of sessions for those who are engaged in the preparation, support, and continuing education of teachers of English language arts/literacy. Sample session topics include:
• Finding Hope and Humanity in Academia: A Conversation on Navigating the Ranks of Academia in English Teacher Education
• The Future Is Now: Exploring 21st-Century Teaching Ideas with the Next Generation of English Teachers
• 60 Years of Heart, Hope, and Humanity in English Teacher Education
• Critical Pedagogy and Closing the Literacy Achievement Gap
• Hearts, Minds, and AI: Preservice Teachers’ Approaches to Using ChatGPT for Lesson Planning and Instruction
• Generative AI as a Tool for Cultivating Criticality with Students and Teachers
• Imagining Democratic Futures: Reflections on Critical Writing Pedagogy from Kindergarten to College
• Centering Critical Hope through Program and Course (Re)Design: Humanizing Teaching and Learning with Preservice and Practicing Teachers
• Empowering Future Change Agents: Literacy Meets Global Activism
College Level favorites:
FEATURED COLLEGE SESSIONS: The College Section has designed special sessions that address current issues in the field that reverberate through our classrooms.
ELATE LUNCHEON: Celebrate the accomplishments of ELATE (English Language Arts Teacher Educators) members and enjoy a keynote address from Ijeoma Oluo.
Friday, Nov. 22, 11:30 A.M.–1:30 P.M.
COLLEGE SECTION WORKSHOP: Join the College Section and the Two-Year College English Association for an immersive experience for college teachers: Developing Concurrent Enrollment and Dual Credit Courses for Equitable Student and Instructor Support.
Saturday, Nov. 23, 2:45–5:30 P.M.
COLLEGE SECTION GET-TOGETHER: Meet members of the College Section Steering Committee, hear Section updates and award announcements, gather with friends and colleagues over appetizers, and hear from poet and educator, Tracy K. Smith.
Thursday, Nov. 21, 5:45–7:00 P.M.
What about research?
Each year the Annual Convention features a carefully selected set of sessions devoted entirely to current research in the field, bringing together different perspectives on critical issues. You will be able to search the Research Strand on our online program to explore nearly 200 sessions.
• Identifying and Describing the Theories That Inform Current Adolescent Literacy Research
• Empowering Bilingual Education via University-Rural Community Praxis Partnership
• Transformative Intergenerational Collaboration Led with Heart, Hope, and Humanity
• Grounded Relationships: Practicing an Intergenerational Mentorship in Community Literacy Projects
• Undergraduate Research—Fostering Media Literacy and Changemaking