Spring Semester To-Do
- Upload your teacher-research proposal here ASAP!
- Data Collection Workshop/Staff Meeting – Wednesday Feb. 15, 9:00-10:15 am in HCW 7101
- Data Analysis Workshop/Staff Meeting – Thursday April 13, 8-9:15 am in the WC Commons
Professional Development
Spring 2017
Professional development for Spring 2017 includes the pre-semester orientation, three one-hour staff meetings, at least one individual meeting, and a teacher-research project.
Fall 2016 PD (Archive)
Professional development for the Fall 2016 semester includes the pre-semester orientation, three one-hour staff meetings, two half-hour individual meetings, and two three-hour professional development workshops.
Materials
Below you’ll find program-specific materials for 201 as well as handouts and other documents distributed during meetings.
Course Planning and Management
Professional Development
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Models
We’re still (always) building this list. If you have anything to add, please let us know! 🙂
Sample Syllabi
- 201 Boilerplate Syllabus
- Course Charter for Compassion (A selection from Asao Inoue’s course policies)
Activity Databases/Lists
- Fall 2016 201 Instructor Activity Share
- Activities for Teaching Writing – Updated 8.31 (Orientation handout)
- Our Favorite Writing Assignments! (Orientation freewrite)
- University of Minnesota Active Learning Activities
- Active Learning Resource List
Model Databases (activities, assignments, handouts, syllabi, etc.)
Activities
Presentations
Classroom Readings
- On Rhetoric
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Demo, Guerrilla Girls (teaching Burkean concepts like perspective by incongruity)
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LaWare, Aztlan (teaching about epideictic, especially in visual form)
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Jack, Pedagogy of Sight (introduces Jack’s own term ‘pedagogy of sight’)
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Blair & Michel, Civil Rights (teaching about rhetorical performance)
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Selzer, Rhetorical Analysis (basic guide to doing rhetorical analysis)
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Campbell & Burkholder (longer, two part introduction to doing rhetorical criticism)
- Bazerman & Prior, How Texts Persuade Readers
- Campbell and Burkholder, Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric – Descriptive Analysis, The First Stage of Criticism
- Campbell and Burkholder, Critiques of Contemporary Rhetoric – Historical-Contextual Analysis, The Second Stage of Criticism
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- On Writing Strategies
- On Politics & Social Issues
Resources
Teacher-Research Resources
- Defining Teacher Research
- Classroom Action Research
- Teacher Research Tools (Analyzing Participation & Writing)
- Teaching as Research Developmental Framework
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Survey/Question Design Resources
- Harvard University Program on Survey Research Guide
- UW-Madison Guide on Survey Fundamentals
- Pew Research Guide on Questionnaire Design
Institutional Resources
- Promoting Inclusivity in the Classroom (Zimmerman Email, Resource List)
- UW Emergency Preparedness Website (UW Police Department, Website)
- Library Instructional Services (Informative email with contact info)
- When Classwork and Religious Observances Conflict (2015 Memo on Policy)
Pedagogical Resources
- Course Workload Estimator
- Teaching the Election (Bedford Bits blog series)
- Active Learning Resources (Resource list)
- University of Minnesota Active Learning Activities
- From Research to Practice: Some Ideas for Writing Instruction (Appendix, Beaufort)
- Professional Knowledge for the Teaching of Writing (NCTE statement)
- Writing Assessment: A Position Statement (CCCC statement)
- Writing Assessment in Colleges and Universities (NCTE-WPA white paper)
Relevant Scholarly Work
- Multimodality in Motion: Disability & Kairotic Spaces
- Brammer & Rees, Peer Review from the Students’ Perspective
- Ching, Apprenticeship in the Instructor-Led Peer Conference
- Holt, Written Peer Criticism
- Reynolds & Russell, Peer Review Quality when Students Give Audio vs Written Feedback
- Fife & ONeill, Beyond the Written Comment
- Sommers, Responding to Student Writing
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