Doris Day as teacher photo courtesy of throughtheillusion


The March 2009 theme for submissions is teaching

All human behavior which is not instinctual must be taught, and the teachers that impart those lessons to us are as important as they are diverse. Beyond the professional educators of the school system, our family, our friends, our foes and our experiences all serve as teachers for us, molding us into who we become as adults.

In our March issue, InTheFray Magazine would like to explore teaching and teachers. Think about the teachers from your life, be they professional, familial or informal. What made them effective? What made them ineffective? What difficulties have you faced and what successes have you enjoyed as a teacher? What separates a good teacher from a poor teacher, and how can we, as outside observers, tell the difference? Why is teaching so often regarded as a "calling" and therefore underpaid and underappreciated? Explore the concept of teaching, in all of its senses.

Contributors interested in pitching relevant news features, poetry/ fiction, cultural criticism, commentary pieces, personal essays, visual essays, travel stories, or book reviews should e-mail us at teaching-at-inthefray-dot-org. Send us a well-developed, one-paragraph pitch for your proposed piece NO LATER THAN FEBRUARY 11, 2008. First- time contributors are urged to review our submissions guidelines at http://inthefray.org/submit and review recent pieces published in InTheFray Magazine at http://inthefray.org.