Schedule of Workshops and Responses

Fall

  • Month 1: Designing Effective Assignments
    • In-Person Workshop: Thursday, September 27th in N-704 from 1-2PM

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/wacdigitalinitiativeswritingintensivecertification/2011/06/15/effectiveassignmentsdesign/

  • Discussion: What kinds of formal writing do you assign your students? What is one informal writing assignment you might incorporate into your schedule that would help students learn course content?
  • Portfolio Assignment: Revise one of your formal assignment sheets to incorporate scaffolding.

 

  • Month 2: Avoiding Plagiarism
    • In-Person Workshop: Thursday, October 11th in N-704 from 1-2PM

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/wacdigitalinitiativeswritingintensivecertification/2017/11/02/avoiding-plagiarism/

  • Discussion: What types of plagiarism do you encounter or anticipate encountering in your courses? How can you craft your policies, syllabus, and / or assignments so that your course is more plagiarism-resistant?
  • Portfolio Assignment: Revise one of your assignment prompts to make it plagiarism resistant and plan out the scaffolded components you might use leading up to its final form.

 

  • Month 3: Effective Grading and Minimal Marking
    • In-Person Workshop: Thursday, November 8th in N-704 from 1-2PM

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/wacdigitalinitiativeswritingintensivecertification/2018/03/08/minimal-marking-effective-grading/

  • Discussion: What aspects of grading feel the most useful for you and productive for students, and what are the areas of overlap?
  • Portfolio Assignment: Create a grading matrix for your low and high-stakes assignments, indicating what kinds of minimal marking techniques you could implement for each. Draft a peer review plan that works for your classes.

Spring

  • Month 1: WI Syllabus Design
    • In-Person Workshop: Thursday, February 21st in N-505A from 1-2PM

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/wacdigitalinitiativeswritingintensivecertification/2018/02/16/developing-your-wi-syllabus/

  • Discussion: What are your current course objectives and how do you use writing (low and high stakes assignments) in your classroom to achieve them?
  • Portfolio Assignment: Revise three of the current course objectives on your syllabus to reflect how you use writing in the classroom.

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/wacdigitalinitiativeswritingintensivecertification/2018/04/12/the-creative-classroom/

  • Discussion: Think about a concept that your students have a difficult time grasping. How might you incorporate active learning techniques to teach that concept in the future?
  • Portfolio Assignment: Choose two active learning activities from the lists in the slides or the (longer) list in the handout and draft a lesson plan for each that would work for an existing or future course.