This is probably going to be your go-to page for this quarter. Below, you can find each week of the quarter listed. Just select the week you want in order to see additional details. As I know it can be helpful and some prefer it, here is a PDF version of the course schedule, as well.
The work you’ll do for the course will be completed in our Shared Google Drive folder. I strongly recommend you bookmark this page or try to find a way to make it as easy as possible to get to. 😉 Just let me know if you have any questions.
Keep in mind, this course schedule is tentative and subject to change based on your needs, as well as events beyond our control. That being said, I will never move up deadlines, and I will give you advanced notice of any significant changes.
Week 1: A History of Writing Pedagogy – Wednesday, April 1
Readings/Material
- Berlin, James, “Contemporary Composition: The Major Pedagogical Theories”
- Berthoff, Anne, “Learning the Uses of Chaos”
- Elbow, Peter, ““Freewriting, Voice, and the Virtue of Making a Mess”
- Video: “A Brief History of Writing Instruction in the US”
Tasks
- Introductions; Overview of the course – In-Class Tasks
- Practice Dialectical Journal – Initial Contributions in class
- Murray, Donald, “Teach Writing as a Process Not Product” and/or
- Lamott, Anne, “Shitty First Drafts”
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, April 3
- Complete the “Getting to Know You” Survey
Week 2: Evolving Writing Pedagogies – Wednesday, April 8
Readings/Material
- Wood, Shane A., “Pathways and Reflections” from Teachers Talking Writing
- Ball, Cheryl E. and Drew M. Loewe (editors), Bad Ideas about Writing: Read the “Introduction” and pick any 5 “Bad Ideas” to read
- Optional Resource: Evolution of Beth’s Teaching Philosophy
- Optional Resource: Example Teaching Philosophies (also found in our Shared Google Drive folder)
Tasks
- In-Class Tasks
- Overview of 21st century pedagogical theories and philosophies
- Discuss Teaching Philosophy Assignment
- Writing Completed:
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, April 10
Week 3: Inclusive Teaching Practices – Wednesday, April 15
Readings/Material
- Baker-Bell, April, “Black Language is Good on Any MLK Boulevard” from Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy
- Young, Vershawn, “Should Writers Use They Own English?”
- Lysicott, Jamilia, “Three Ways to Speak English” (TED Talk)
- Wood, Shane A., “Second-Language Writing” from Teachers Talking Writing
- Slinkard, Jennifer and Jeroen Gevers, “Confronting Internalized Language Ideologies in the Writing Classroom: Three Pedagogical Examples”
- Anzaldua, Gloria, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue”
Tasks
- In-Class Tasks
- Creating inclusive writing environments
- Addressing diversity in writing instruction; linguistic justice
- Writing Completed:
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, April 17
Week 4: Universal Design and Access – Wednesday, April 22*
Readings/Material
- Wood, Shane A., “Disability Studies” from Teachers Talking Writing
- Dolmage, Jay, “Mapping Composition – Inviting Disability in the Front Door” and “Universal Design: Places to Start”
- Cedillo, Christina V., “What Does It Mean to Move?: Race, Disability, and Critical Embodiment Pedagogy”
Tasks
- In-Class Tasks
- Discuss Teaching Artifacts Assignment/s
- Understanding Universal Design of Learning approaches
- Issues of Access
- Writing Completed:
- Rough Draft Teaching Philosophy by class
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, April 24
Week 5: Assignment Design – Wednesday, April 29
Readings/Material
- Corder, Jim “What I Learned in School”
- Madsen, Sarah, Gwen Kordonowy, and Ken Liss “How Do Assignments Dispose Students Towards Research? Answer Getting and Problem-Exploring in First Year Writing”
- Cirio, Joe, “Meeting the Promise of Negotiation: Situating Negotiated Rubrics with Students’ Prior Experiences”
Tasks
- In-Class Tasks
- Example Teaching Philosophies
- Teaching Philosophy Workshop/Peer Response
- Writing Completed:
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, May 1
Week 6: Approaches to Assessment and Feedback – Wednesday, May 6**
Readings/Material
- Wood, Shane A., “Classroom Writing Assessment” from Teachers Talking Writing
- Fernandes, Brier, & McIntyre, “The Trouble with “Ungrading”
- Read: Sommers, Nancy, “Responding to Student Writing” and “Across the Drafts”
- Medzerian, Star, “Style and the Pedagogy of Response”
- Palmeri, J and Abby Dubisar, “Participation as Reflective Practice: Digital Composing and Feminist Pedagogy” from The Rhetoric of Participation: Interrogating Commonplaces In and Beyond the Classroom
- Optional but extremely helpful resource for navigating assessment: Asao B. Inoue’s Website
Tasks
- Teaching Artifact #2 – Activity and Discussion Facilitations Begin*
- Gabby & Kathy – Palmeri & Dubisar, “Participation…”
You can access the lesson slides here.
- Gabby & Kathy – Palmeri & Dubisar, “Participation…”
- Schedule a meeting with Beth for Week 7 (on Zoom) to talk about your Teaching Philosophies (and anything else)
- Writing Completed:
- Complete Draft Teaching Philosophy by class**
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, May 8
Week 7: Multimodal & Digital Writing Instruction – Wednesday, May 13
Readings/Material
- Wood, Shane A., “Multimodality” from Teachers Talking Writing
- Gonzales, Laura and Janine Butler, “Working Toward Social Justice through Multilingualism, Multimodality, and Accessibility in Writing Classrooms”
- Fancher, Patricia and Josh Mehler, “Sounding the Stories of Isla Vista: Archives, Microhistory, and Multimedia Storytelling” from Soundwriting Pedagogies (optional, but clearly relevant )
- Shipka, Jody, “A Multimodal Task-Based Framework for Composing” (optional)
Tasks
- No Class today, instead, you will be scheduling an individual feedback session with Beth (these will be on Zoom)
- Writing Completed:
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, May 15
Week 8: Emerging Writing Technologies – Wednesday, May 20**
Readings/Material
- Vee, Annette, “Large Language Models Write Answers”
- Johnson, Gavin P. “Don’t Act Like You Forgot: Approaching Another Literacy “Crisis” by (Re)Considering What We Know about Teaching Writing with and through Technologies”
- Mills, Anna, “Fact Checking Auto-Generated AI Hype”
- Pigg, Stacey, “Research Writing with ChatGPT: A Descriptive Embodied Practice Framework”
- Optional, but interesting: Burnett, D. Graham, “Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?”
Tasks
- Teaching Artifact #2 – Activity and Discussion Facilitations Continue*
- Sofia, Victor, Felipe: Class Activities/Resources
- Incorporating technology into writing instruction
- Teaching Writing in an Age of Generative AI
- Writing Completed:
- Dialectical Journal Contributions by Friday, May 22
Week 9: Writing Across the Curriculum / Writing in the Disciplines – Wednesday, May 27*
Readings/Material
- Wood, Shane A., “Writing Across the Curriculum” from Teachers Talking Writing
- Carter, Michael, “Ways of Knowing, Doing, and Writing in the Disciplines”
- Irene Clark, “A Genre Approach to Writing Assignments”
Tasks
- Teaching Artifact #2 – Activity and Discussion Facilitations Continue*
- Emma & Lulu – Google Slides
- Cate – Activity Document
- WAC/WID
- Genre Theory
- Writing Completed:
- Teaching Artifact #1 – Assignment Prompt Complete Draft by class**
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by class
- Complete remaining contributions by Friday, May 22
Week 10: Bringing it All Together and Course Wrap-up – Wednesday, June 3*
Readings/Material
- Peer Dossier Drafted Documents (starting Wednesday)
Tasks
- In-Class Tasks
- Course evals
- Course Takeaways
- Synthesizing and Workshopping
- Writing Completed:
- Drafts of documents for Teaching Dossier by Wednesday, June 3*
- (have drafts of the things you want to focus on ready to workshop)
- Initial Dialectical Journal Contributions by (or in) class
- Complete remaining contributions by Wednesday, June 10
- Drafts of documents for Teaching Dossier by Wednesday, June 3*
Finals Week – June 8-12
- Final Teaching Dossier Due: by end of day Friday, June 12 in your individual folder *updated*
Along with any and all make-up work (including missing Dialectical Journals or other make-up assignments)