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Delores Robinson
English Instructor



Illinois Valley Community College
815 Orlando Smith Rd.
Oglesby, IL  61348



Office:      Building A -- Office 328
Phone:      (815) 224-0398
E-mail:     Delores_Robinson@ivcc.edu 

     

Coffee

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee
and whatever intimacy
a cup of coffee affords....

                   ~Richard Brautigan
 

 

Spring 2013

Below are links to the general course syllabi.  Students enrolled in a class will be able to access
more thorough information about assignments and due dates through the course Blackboard website.

  English 1001
Composition I
English 1002
Composition II
 		 Class Schedule
and
Office Hours

 

Helpful Links

IVCC Home Page IVCC Writing Center
Blackboard
 

IVCC Stylebook
 		 IVCC Library About Me

 

      A basic purpose of education is helping students learn how to learn and in doing so accept increasingly the responsibility for their own education.  Yes, we have to determine what students need to know and be able to do at various levels, but they aren't simply empty vessels to be filled with knowledge that we provide.  Our purpose is to educate, not indoctrinate.

         The challenge of teaching lies in coping with the variables.  No two students think exactly alike, learn in precisely the same way or at the same rate, and have absolutely the same interests.  Nor do all the students in a classroom arrive there with the same personalities, the same challenges, the same home environments, or the same economic situation.  And those variables change from day to day -- sometimes during the day.  The same is true of teachers.  Those are the challenges of teaching.  The interplay -- indeed, the unpredictability -- of all those variables is the joy of teaching.

"Reflections" by William McBride, Emeritus Professor of English at Colorado State University
NCTE Council Chronicle, November 2009

                                                   

 

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