Beat the January blues! Start the New Year right by building more writing into your courses with the Writing Center's four-day Winter Institute on Teaching with Writing. In this supportive, collaborative, virtual setting, faculty and graduate student participants will work on assignment design, multimodal writing projects, responding to writing, and evaluating student work.
This series of four workshops will be held via Zoom from 10:00 am -12:00 pm on January 12th, 14th, 19th, and 21th, 2021.Participants are required to attend all four days. Open to all interested faculty and graduate student instructors, but the workshops are primarily designed for those teaching content-oriented courses (i.e. courses in the social sciences, history, art, philosophy, and the natural sciences) rather than writing-focused courses.
Register at https://writingcenter.uiowa.edu/teaching-writing-institute.
Schedule
Day 1: Tuesday, Jan 12
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Overview of teaching with writing (30 minutes): Brad Hughes, guest speaker
Course adjustments
Assignment design
HW: Revise or devise a draft of an assignment
Day 2: Thursday, Jan 14
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop revised or new assignments in small groups (30 minutes)
Designing multimodal assignments with writing
HW: Build multimodality into an existing assignment or design a new one
Day 3: Tuesday, Jan 19
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop multi-modalized assignments in small groups (30 minutes)
Efficiently, effectively responding to and assessing writing
Using informal writing
HW: Design two informal writing activities to incorporate into your course
Day 4: Thursday, Jan 21
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Workshop informal writing assignments in small groups
Panel of faculty across the disciplines who teach with writing (30 minutes)
Resources and plan for follow up
Individuals with disabilities are encouraged to attend all University of Iowa-sponsored events. If you are a person with a disability who requires a reasonable accommodation in order to participate in this program, please contact Carol Severino in advance at carol-severino@uiowa.edu.