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FALL 2005 WORKSHOPS
 Come
As You Are: Enabling Dialogue in the Classroom through Informal Writing
Wednesday, November 9, 2005
Silence in the classroom sometimes results when teachers don’t know
what students are thinking, and students are not sure what teachers expect
of them. Many students often need not only to understand the purpose of assigned
writing, but must also have useful, dialogic feedback. In this workshop,
we will discuss how to use informal assignments to assess more accurately what
our students are learning, to communicate more clearly our expectations, and
to encourage student-to-student and teacher-to-student communication.
| 12:15-12:25 |
Introduction and Welcome
Dr.
William Burgos, WAC Director
Review
from 10/19 workshop |
| 12:25-12:40 |
Double-entry journaling
Laurie Lehman and Jessica Trubek |
| 12:40-1:20 |
Dialogic Writing Assignments and Applications
Sample
Assignments
Hal
Burton
David
Spierer
John
Lonie
Sarah
Blazer
Assessing
Assignments
Helpful
to you and your students
Handling
the Workload |
| 1:20-1:30 |
Individual Activity
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Come up with an informal writing assignment for your course which
encourages dialogue.
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Or identify problems you have creating and implementing this kind of assignment? |
| 1:40-2:00 |
Report Back: What have you done in your courses with informal writing
assignments? What has or hasn’t worked for you? |
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Conclusions |
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