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Workshops for faculty teaching in
the First Year Core will be held in the late summer of 2000 and
2001.
Year One
The workshop will be held Monday,
Aug. 4 through Friday Aug. 18.
The Presenters/Coordinators will
be:
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Susan Ferguson
David Schmitz
Bob Withycombe |
The participants
will include:
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Paul Apostolidis
Dana Burgess
David Carey
Dale Cosper
Roberta Davidson
Julia Davis
Tom Davis
David Deal
Theresa DiPasquale
Andrea Dobson
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Gary
Esary
Susan Ferguson
Craig Gunsul
Delbert Hutchinson
Rogers Miles
Ruth Russo
David Schmitz
Margo Scribner
Lynn Sharp
Bob Withycombe |
Tentative Schedule
Monday, August 14
| I. |
Discussion
of discussions (Schmitz) |
| II. |
Quick overview of structure
of Core |
| III. |
Why do we want discussion? Sequence
of questions:
Why discussion?
What is discussion?
Why in Core?
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| IV. |
When we are not actually discussing,
what else are we doing:
Context
Biographical
Information Break
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| V. |
Benefits and Difficulties
Individual work with form that
sets out these issues
Break up into small groups for discussion
Report back to the whole group
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| VI. |
Anticipate we will find two different
sets of problems
1. Text and preparation
2. Roles
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| V. |
Summary |
Tuesday, August 15
| I. |
Strategies
We will have material from prepared
documents on discussions and from our own materials acquired
through the interviews.
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| II. |
Tool Box (Withycombe)
Discussion of various strategies
for approaching discussion and addressing some of the
problems identified the previous day.
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| III. |
Roles (Ferguson)
Discussion of various roles that
people take on during discussion and strategies for dealing
with some of the problems that frequently emerge.
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Wednesday, August 16
| I. |
Specific Strategies
using students in discussions |
| II. |
Debates and Formal
Presentations by Students (Withycombe) |
| III. |
Small group reporting
or formal presentations to set up context of texts. |
Thursday, August 17
| I. |
Evaluation |
| II. |
Strategies for Evaluation (Withycombe)
Discussion as a process
Half sit out and observe
How you set out criteria
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| III. |
Evaluation and Grading (Ferguson)
Oral exams
Grading particular types of participation i.e. leading
discussion, debate
Grading overall participation
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Friday, August 18
| I. |
Linkages (Schmitz) |
| II. |
Setting up assignments |
| III. |
Discussion and student
development |
| IV. |
Grading conferences |
Page maintained by T.
A. Callister, Jr.
Last updated 6/20/2000
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