Spring 2008 WINGED
Writing IN Generally Every Discipline
Are you assigning more reading and writing, but enjoying it less? Interested in helping your students acquire the careful reading, thinking, and writing skills that they need to succeed in your courses—without increasing your own grading workload? Need discipline-specific tips and hints to help your students motivate themselves, understand the reading you assign, and turn in better written exams, papers and projects? Then come to one of our workshops!
Each freestanding session, facilitated by Deborah Wilhelm, will focus on your concerns about student reading, writing and thinking. In addition, we’ll offer a faculty writing review to help you refine your own writing skills. Each workshop is designed to specifically to meet the needs of the individual faculty members attending, and you may attend one, some, or all of the sessions depending on your needs and preferences—no commitment required!
Share ideas with other faculty:
Faculty design and test writing assignments for their disciplines. Establish "standards" for measuring student success. Learn techniques for responding to student writing effectively and quickly.
Your students can become better thinkers, readers, and writers—and you can make your classes more focused and relevant, including reducing both your grading load and your worry load. Cal Poly’s WINGED (Writing in Generally Every Discipline), a workshop series for faculty from across the disciplines, offers conversation, insight, and pragmatic strategies for a variety of classroom concerns:
- Encouraging students to think critically about course content
- Assuring that they complete and understand course reading
- Increasing the quality of their projects, exams, or papers
As a WINGED workshop participant, you can join this faculty conversation about creating student accountability for course content, using good assignment design and assessment, and a variety of additional topics specific to your needs. The four-meeting series is designed to give you a bag of “magic tricks” (that is, appropriate pedagogical practices) that you can take immediately into your classroom and use to your—and your students’—benefit.
One WINGED seminar will be offered during Spring Quarter 2008:
Date: Tuesdays (April 15, 22, and 29, and May 6)
Time: 3:10 to 5:00 pm
Location: Kennedy Library, Room 510B
For more information or to sign up, contact Deborah Wilhelm (dwilhelm@calpoly.edu, 756-7038) or the CTL (ctl@calpoly.edu, 756-7002 |
