Meetings 2011-2012

Wednesday, September 14

  1. Regrets: Michelle Richards
  2. Announcements
    • Some students have indicated that they have been advised that if they are having trouble in MATH 2600 they should drop it and take MATH 2400 instead. It's not clear where the students are getting this advice, and indeed it may just be wishful thinking on their part. Returning students (i.e., anyone other than a freshman who entered this fall) are on the old core. MATH 2400 is not in the old core and does not satisfy Area D of the old core.
    • Midterm Grades due Wednesday, October 5 by 9:00AM (submit Tuesday).
    • TurnItIn now has online grading and peer review capabilities.
    • Michaelle Fields, Pearson Sales Representative, in A&S 303 from 12:00-2:00PM today. Teaching Fellows who are teaching 1102 for the second time and looking for a different textbook could ask her about possibilities.
  3. Observations, etc.
    • Coordinator Observation
    • Peer Observation
    • GIFT or SALG
      • GIFT: Ask Matt, Stephan, or Sal to administer between September 26 and October 14
      • SALG: Alex, Matt, and Roger designing survey on September 19 at 12:00PM; Alex will send send info via email so it can be administered starting September 26. Recommend one week span during week 7 or 8; remind students before and during survey period.
    • Assignment in Common
  4. Are there any teaching issues that Fellows want the group to discuss?

Wednesday, October 5

  1. Regrets: Tori Averett
  2. Announcements
    • Emily, Rebecca, and Stephen need to submit midterm grades.
    • Job Application Info Session Wednesday, October 12, 12:00PM, A&S 315: designed for graduating MFAs looking for jobs and fellowships; graduate school applications will be briefly mentioned
  3. Observations, etc.
  4. Textbook Orders
    • First-time 1102 Instructors: Use the books selected by the Textbook Adoption Committee: Shilb, John, and John Clifford, eds. Making Literature Matter: A Text and Anthology for Writers. 5th ed. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2012. ISBN-13:978-0-312-65354-5
      • Alex will order desk copies for you, but you must place your order with the bookstore.
      • Although the committee had concerns about the book's organization, we appreciated its canon, women, and play selections as well as its rhetoric of the writing process.
    • Experienced 1102 Instructors: Select either literature reader and writing process rhetoric or reader/rhetoric combination; run textbook choice by Alex by October 13
    • All: May select one supplemental book, run choice by Alex by October 13
      • Most publishers, including Bedford and Pearson have programs allowing you to bundle select novels or plays with textbooks with a single reduced price ISBN. Go to the publisher's website or contact the sales representative for more information. However, if you bundle, students will have to purchase new books.
    • All: order textbooks by October 15
  5. Are there any teaching issues that Fellows want the group to discuss?

Wednesday, October 26, A&S 315

  1. Regrets: Elizabeth Bohnhorst, Janet Dale, Emily Hansen
  2. Absent: Stephan McCormick, JT Torres
  3. Observations, etc.
  4. Plagiarism Redux
    • Recommend all use TurnItIn.
  5. Research Paper Timeline
  6. 1102 Syllabus

Wednesday, November 16, A&S 315

  1. Regrets: Tori Averett, Emily Chamison, Janet Dale, Emily Hansen
  2. Conference on graded papers: Emily C. and JT
  3. Library Instruction
  4. Kids
  5. Seat Modifiers
  6. End of Semester
  7. 1102 Questions and Concerns

Wednesday, February 1, A&S 368

  1. Regrets: Tori Averett
  2. Conference on Graded Papers: JT, Roger
  3. Coordinator Observations, GIFT or SALG, Assignment in Common
  4. Conference on Teaching Evaluations: Optional
  5. Housing/Vehicle Query for Graduate Student
  6. 1102: In Class Activities and Purpose of Course

Wednesday, March 7, A&S 315

  1. Regrets: Tori Averett, Emily Chamison, Emily Hansen, Roger Sollenberger
  2. Conference on Graded Papers: Roger, Rebecca
  3. Coordinator Observations, Peer Observations, GIFT, SALG
  4. Fall 1101 Book Orders
    1. Aim & Scope Supplement (Textbook Adoption Committee)
    2. Textbook Examination & Ordering Process (Exam Copies)
    3. Let Alex, Janet, and Matt know your recommendations for a common reader, rhetoric, and handbook for fall's new Teaching Fellows. From discussion, Remix is out, and 40 Model Essays, The Sea Gull Reader, Acting Out Culture are possibilities.
  5. Strategies for Student Participation

Wednesday, April 4, A&S 315

  1. Fall 1101 Book Orders
    1. Textbook Adoption Committee Selections
      1. Reader/Rhetoric Combination: Eschholz, Paul and Alfred Rosa, eds. Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition. 11th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012. Print. ISBN-13: 978-0-312-55201-5.
      2. Handbook: Hacker, Diana and Nancy Sommers. A Pocket Style Manual. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012. Print. ISBN-13: 978-0-312-54254-2.
    2. Book Orders
      1. Current instructors let Coordinator know choice by Wednesday, April 11, then place order yourself by Saturday, April 15.
      2. The Coordinator will order desk copies of the common reader for the new instructors and the handbook for all instructors and place them in your mailboxes in a few weeks. The Coordinator will place orders for new instructors.
  2. End of Semester Procedures
  3. Self-Reflections and Self-Assessments
    1. Assignments: What worked best? What could be revised?
    2. Teaching Statement: What does your teaching philosophy value and how did you practice that ideal?
    3. Teaching Moments: Best? Worst?
    4. Learning and Advice: What did you learn this year? What do you suggest to the new instructors?
  4. New Instructors Summer Preparation
    1. Read The St. Martin's Guide to Teaching Writing and perhaps another book.
    2. Read the Teaching Fellows site.

 

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