Schedule

SEPTEMBER

One [09/04]
Introduction to Course

Two [09/11]
Writing Center Tutor Training

Guest instructors: Jule Wallis & Jared Grogan
Readings Reviewed:
Short essays (linked here) by Harris, Harris, Harris & Silva, Morrow, Neville, and North.

Three [09/18]
The Teaching Thing

First week of Class Covered
Readings Reviewed:
What the Best College Teachers Do

Four [09/27]
Everything You Wanted to Know About 1020 But Were Afraid To Ask

Visit from Mentors
Readings Reviewed:
McKeachie’s Teaching Tips (Chapters 1, 2, 3, & 4)

OCTOBER

Five [10/04]
Demonstration Derby!

Special Appearances by Thomas Trimble & Nicole Varty
Practitioner Demos for Ad Analysis Sessions
Alternatives to the Ad Analysis Project

Six [10/11]
The Ad Analysis Assignment

Ad Analysis Session Covered
Reading Reviewed:
Clueless in Academe

Seven [10/18]
The Rhetorical Analysis Assignment

Rhetorical Analysis Sessions Covered
Readings Reviewed:
McKeachie’s Teaching Tips (Chapters 5, 6, 14, 15, & 16)

Eight [10/25]
The Definition Assignment

Definition Sessions Covered
Practitioner Demos of Rhetorical Analysis Lesson Plans

NOVEMBER

Nine [11/01]
The Evaluation and Proposal Assignments

Evaluation and Proposal Assignments Sessions Covered
Introduction of Annotation Assignment
Readings Reviewed:
McKeachie’s Teaching Tips (Chapters 11-13)

Ten [11/08]
Demonstration Derby II!

Special Appearances by LaToya Faulk and Adrienne Jankens
Practitioner Demos for Evaluation and Proposal Sessions
Alternative Assignment Demos

Eleven [11/15]
Making the Grade

Review of Syllabus Assignment
Discussion of Grading Exercise Results
Introduction to Power-Grading®
Solicitation of Late-Semester Feedback

Twelve [11/22]
Demonstration Derby III!

Review of Late-Semester Feedback
Practitioner Demos of War is Boring sessions

Thirteen [11/29]

Bye Week: No Class Meeting

DECEMBER

Fourteen [12/06]
Final Meeting

Technology Room Training
SETs Administered
Observation Reports Due
Winter 2012 Syllabi (hard and soft copy) Due

JANUARY

Sixteen [01/10]
Second Semester Orientation

Review of Second Semester Syllabus and Deliverables
Music Video Analysis Demo (by special guest Derek Risse)

Seventeen [01/17]
Discussing Discussion

Getting Discussion Going in the Classroom
Jing Presentation by Melanie
Readings Reviewed:
Discussion As A Way of Teaching (chapters 1-4)

Eighteen [01/24]
Engaging Students

Readings Reviewed:
Student Engagement Techniques (chapters 7 , 8, & 9)

Nineteen [01/31]
Teaching English 1010

1010 Overview with Special Guest Amy Metcalf
Reading Reviewed:
Errors & Expectations (introduction + chapters 4, 7, & 8)

FEBRUARY

Twenty [02/07]
Making the Grade (Again)

Grade Norming Session
Readings Reviewed:
Engaging Ideas (chapter 14-16)

Twenty-One [02/14]
Critical Thinking and Thinking Rhetorically 

Readings Reviewed:
Engaging Ideas (chapters 2, 3, & 6)

Twenty-Two [02/21]
Teaching 3010

3010 Overview with Special Guest Joe Paszek
Readings Reviewed:
“The Concept of Discourse Community” (Swales),  “Literacy, Discourse, Linguistics” (Gee), and “The Question of University Writing Instruction” (Beaufort) [all of these readings are available on our Blackboard site under “Content”]

Twenty-Three [02/28]
Return of

Q & A with Special Guests Katrina Newsom, Brad Stabler, Abigail Heiniger, Nicole Varty, and Judith Wilbers

Twenty-Four [03/20]
Total Pan-demo-nium!  

Twenty-Five [03/27]
Teaching 3050

Overview of ENG 3050 with Special Guest Conor Shaw-Draves

Twenty-Six [04/03]
What We Talk About When We Talk About Teaching

Review of SET forms and Teaching Portfolios
Readings Reviewed:
Graduate Study for the Twenty-First Century chapter 6 and Surviving Your Academic Job Hunt sample teaching documents

Twenty-Seven [04/10]
Adaptations

Presentation of Model Syllabi Adaptations
Discussion of SET administration

Twenty-Eight [04/17]
It’s So Hard to S

Tearful Farewell
Final Reflections on the Semester
SETS administered