About Us
Our Purposes
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1. To identify and articulate the best theories, practices, and pedagogy in teaching English in the two-year college;
2.To establish multiple channels for the communication of these theories, practices, and pedagogies and for discussion and effective change by the members of TYCA-KY;
3.To influence the future of English studies in Kentucky.
Our Goals
1.To promote excellence in the theory and practice of teaching English;
2.To encourage scholarship and research that informs the teaching of writing, literature, and language;
3.To provide a forum for shared professional concerns;
4.To recognize and support diversity in the classroom and in the profession;
5.To promote awareness of the distinctively open academic and social environment of the two-year college;
6.To promote awareness of the effectiveness and adaptability of the two-year college in meeting community needs;
7.To encourage membership in TYCA-SE;
8.To establish, affirm, and strengthen ties to groups that share our professional commitments;
9. To encourage the participation in TYCA-KY through meetings, conferences, publications, and other professional activities;
10. To encourage scholarship in TYCA-related publications
TOGETHER
YOU AND I
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Our History
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After a two-year hiatus, TYCA-Kentucky is back and was in a rebuilding year during 2015 with a conference being held in Elizabethtown, Kentucky. As an English faculty member within KCTCS, YOU are eligible to join the organization and keep it going for the benefit of English faculty in Kentucky.
TYCA-Kentucky is the state branch of the Two-Year College English Association, Southeast region (TYCA-SE), an organization dedicated to the teaching of English at two-year colleges in the Southeastern United States. Many of you were there in the fall of 2008 when TYCA-Kentucky held its first meeting at Shaker Village. The presentations, round table discussions, and workshops –not to mention the music and door prizes! –brought the flavor of the regional TYCA-SE conference home and gave KCTCS English faculty a chance to swap stories and suggestions for teaching and learning. Also at the Shaker Village meeting, TYCA-KY members established by-laws modeled on other successful state organizations, such as TYCA-conference in Jackson, Mississippi, where the organization was founded in 1965.
Together You and I Can make A huge impact in the field of English! Let’s keep it going and growing!
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