Professional Development to Support Writing Instruction
These professional development sessions are intended to support faculty to build their skill and comfort in order to more effectively integrate writing into their classes and support student writers.
Strategies to Support Student Writing Across the Disciplines
The goal of this series is to support faculty to build their skill and comfort in order to more effectively integrate writing into their classes and support student writers.
Over the course of the year, we hope to establish a shared understanding of how students develop as readers and writers and to build faculty skill at effectively integrating student writing into cross-disciplinary classes and in responding to student writers, including those who are multilingual and multidialectal.
Part I. Mindsets and Approaches to Advance Student Writing - November 10, 2022
Through a discussion of asset-focused language and subtractive schooling, participants consider why a mindset shift– about student learners and about themselves as writing teachers–is a critical first step to successfully advancing student writing across disciplines.
Video Coming Soon
Part II. Incorporating and Responding to Writing in Multi-disciplinary Classes
On Friday, February 24, 2023 from 10-11:30 AM, Professor Anderson and Dr. Kohl will host the second of these professional development sessions via zoom, focusing on specific skill strategies to support student writing. In this workshop, Effective Strategies for Incorporating Writing in the Multi-disciplinary Classroom, participants will consider effective prompt construction, the integration of writing with diverse genres, styles and rhetorical situations (as well as forms of writing), and intentional feedback approaches to student writing.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will practice a strategy to analyze the linguistic tasks required by their assignments.
- Participants will identify opportunities to integrate writing instruction across genres, styles, and rhetorical situations and to include exploratory writing in their instruction
- Participants will adopt strategies for giving effective writing feedback.
Part III. Coaching Collaborations to Advance Student Writing
Coming in April 2023
Supporting Writing in Career Development
This 2-part series gives career instructors strategies for scaffolding the cover letter assignment to improve student understanding and final product quality; it also provides instructors with tools for giving productive feedback on student drafts.
Part I. Cover Letter Assignment Strategies
Part I of this two-part training provides guidance on assignment scaffolding and instruction strategies that will help students produce stronger cover letters. The training emphasizes the importance of asset-based language, suggests ways to activate student prior knowledge, and introduces different pre-assignment activities that will help students internalize the expectations of the assignment.
Part II. Providing Effective Student Feedback on Cover Letters
Coming in February 2023
