The Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning, and Leadership (CETLL) presents Revisiting Writing In Our Classrooms, a series of three workshops focusing on the pedagogy of academic writing (Spring 2024). Faculty in all disciplines are invited and welcome.
Workshops:
- Designing Writing Assignments with Purpose – 2/26/2024
- How To Encourage Students To Start Writing – 3/11/2024
- Giving Feedback in a Meaningful and Nurturing Way – 3/25/2024
Location: The President’s Conference Room in the Library (QNS01 – RO-525)
Time: 12:15 pm – 1:30 pm
Facilitators:
Alwin Harahap – Lecturer in English
Khánh Lê – Assistant Professor of Multilingualism and English Education
Amy Wan – Professor of English, Special Assistant to the Provost on Writing, and co-PI for QCAP (Queens College AANAPISI Project)
Designing Writing Assignments with Purpose 2/26/24
In this workshop, we will reflect on our writing assignments with an eye towards sharing, revising, and refining them. We’ll discuss principles for creating purposeful and accessible writing assignments that help students learn disciplinary expectations and genre conventions and the influence of generative AI on our assignments. We’ll also discuss scaffolding and other techniques to help coherently organize a sequence of writing assignments.
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Revisiting Writing: Designing Writing Assignments with Purpose pdf
How To Encourage Students To Start Writing 3/11/24
This workshop will provide teachers with an opportunity to discuss the creation of effective pre-draft activities and assignments that will help students get started on their writing assignments. We’ll discuss brainstorming, organizing, and drafting prompts to help students address common responses to writing assignments like writing anxiety, procrastination, and writer’s block.
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Revisiting Writing In Our Classrooms: How to encourage students to start writing pdf
Giving Feedback in a Meaningful and Nurturing Way 3/25/24
In this workshop, participants will have an opportunity to learn of the many ways to give feedback to Multilingual students in what Friere called “armed love” and Mignolo called “bilingual love.” Participants will learn about the “GLOW” and “GROW” framework in giving feedback, participatory feedback, and leveraging AI (Chat GPT) to give feedback.
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