GA Pedagogy workshops 2012 - 2013
Wednesdays, 10:00 - 11:30, HS XXXStart up workshop for First-Year GAs
- Aug 21 - 24, 9:00 - 3:00 + time to get keys, sing forms, move into office, draft and revise statement and materials
- Desk copies of FYC textbooks are provided.
- Text required: Strategies for Teaching First-Year Composition, Roen, Pantoja, Yena, Miller, and Waggoner, eds. $35 new at Amazon. <http://www.amazon.com/Strategies-Teaching-First-Year-Composition-Duane/dp/0814147496>. You will be using this all through the year.
Local Materials
- Department syllabus for ENGL 1151: Composition. [Note via bdonovan]: Teaching Graduate assistants should take note that the student learning outcomes specified in these documents (under "Assessment") are officially and importantly binding; other stuff in here, like the point system for grading, may be treated as example and suggestion. The department has authority to revise these documents. Suggestions for improvements are welcome.
- GradingRubricForENGL1151
- Writing Tips. Page is now defunct, but the grading criteria are still being circulated.
Local Courses
- Composition, Sara Dennison.
Reading, commenting on, and evaluating papers
- Commenting On Student Papers, pdf. From BYU
- Using Rubrics, pdf. From BYU
- Global and Local Issues, pdf. From BYU
- readings in Roen, et al
Spring Semester