Descriptions of workshop content appear below the table.

To reserve your spot, please email or phone Jenny Hand at:  jhand@iwu.edu or x 3760 by the date listed in the right column.

Lunch, dinner and coffee will be provided as indicated.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING TO PRESENT AT ANY OF THESE WORKSHOPS, PLEASE CONTACT JOEL HAEFNER AT x3756 OR jhaefner@iwu.edu

Workshop Descriptions

October 9, 2007 - This two-hour session will compare how we evaluate (not respond to) student papers. We'll look at two sets of papers in small groups, score them, and reconvene as a group to discuss our evaluations.  In the process we will also begin the process of building a rubric for Gateway papers.

November 6, 2007 - This lunch-time forum will feature faculty and writing center tutors discussing the Writing Partners program as well as student usage of the Center.

Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008  from 9:00-1:00 (coffee at 8:30; half-hour coffee break, lunch following) we plan to present two teaching roundtables: one on classroom techniques and one on class projects.  We're calling for volunteer presenters; presenters will receive a stipend.

February 12, 2008 - This 90-minute meeting (4:00-5:30) will focus on the requirements for writing intensive courses. I hope to have us all look collaboratively at existing courses and how they might be converted to WI status, and to have some faculty volunteer to discuss how they include the teaching of writing in their WI courses.

March 5, 2008 - A noon-hour panel presentation (social science faculty please volunteer!) to examine what makes for good student writing in the social sciences.

April 9 (GW) and April 10 (WI) - Two small-group discussions focusing on syllabus planning for those teaching either a Gateway or writing intensive class in the 2008-09 academic year.