417: Graduate Programs for English Teachers (Help to Launch your Search)

About this episode

Betsy Potash discusses various graduate programs for English teachers, including her experiences at the Bread Loaf School of English and other master's options.

I loved the Bread Loaf School of English program at Middlebury College. It's a unique summer program leading to a Masters in English, catering almost entirely to English teachers. So the class conversations are literary, but somehow it's all infused with teaching ideas, since it's almost all teachers in every room. Through this program, I spent two summers in Vermont, two in Santa Fe, and one in Oxford. I'd be happy to talk about it here, in today's episode on masters programs, but I already shared a complete review, from my perspective, of The Bread Loaf School back in episode 223 , so I'm going to direct you over to that episode if you're looking for a masters in English right now that you can do in person while you teach. But then there's the other option for an English teacher - a masters in the field of education. There are soooo many possibilities that it's a bit hard to know where to start. So here I'm going to round up some top candidates that I considered when I recently decided to go back and get a second masters. They all appeal in different ways. In the blog post, I'll let you know the name of the program, the format, the length, the description as given on the…

People in this episode

Host: Betsy Potash

Topics covered

• graduate programs
• English teachers
• masters in English
• education
• teaching ideas

Keywords

• graduate programs
• English teachers
• masters in English
• education
• teaching
• Bread Loaf School
• Middlebury College

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College

Books & works: The Bread Loaf School

Places: Vermont, Santa Fe, Oxford

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