TEACHING

Summary:The series of just under two cubic feet of papers spans from the late 1970s to 2000 with the bulk dating from 1986 to 2000. This group includes material related to Suellen Glashausser’s tenure as a professor at Montclair State, as well as notes and materials from her teaching at institutes and workshops. It documents the syllabi, handouts, lesson plans and teaching notes, articles, catalogs, projects, workshops, as well as news and magazine articles related to her teaching topics. In addition, there are both examples of student work and slides of student work or of work used to illustrate a particular concept or technique.



Courses she taught include: Design, Drawing, Fibers and Fabrics, Papermaking, Soft Skins, Surface Design, Textile Design, Textile Traditions and Visual Arts. She used some of the same topics, techniques and projects for different courses, so the same subject may be found in the notes for more than one course. An example is the study of shoes both in the Textile Traditions course and in Fibers and Fabrics. Another example is the use of Gallery Visits and Gallery Reviews in several of her courses, as well as a separate course for at least one year.



She also gave workshops at the Artist/Teacher Institute at Stockton College, the Brookfield Craft Center, Peters Valley and others. Workshops covered the making of artists books, basketry, and papermaking, along with specific themes or techniques. The workshop folders may also include administrative papers and teaching notes.



Among the papers were a number of binders, which we have referred to as Teaching Notebooks, and which contained a variety of materials used in her teaching. These have been removed from the notebooks and separated into subject folders, which have notations indicating from which teaching notebook they came. The material from the Teaching Notebooks can be found in folders including the title Teaching Notes. Many are in the form of handwritten lesson plans or ideas for classroom time and others appear to be the technique instruction sheets she used in her classes. She used some of the techniques or topics in several classes, so some of the material appears under more than one course or has been separated into a folder of Teaching Notes for that particular technique.



There is some overlap between this series and the TECHNIQUES series, and some duplication of technique instructions in both series, as technique material constituted a part of class handouts and notes. Further, she included technique material in her binders of teaching notes. This material has been included in this series because it is tied either to specific classes or illustrates her teaching thought process as a part of the teaching notes.



The series is arranged by subject, with topics or techniques not associated with a specific course listed separately. Student work is generally located with the associated course. Student work with no course association has been filed in four Student Work folders. Slides of student work are filed by the date developed, rather than by the semester of the course. A slide taken for a class of Fall 1995 may, therefore, be housed in the folder for that class that is dated 1996.