syllabus last.updated 8.6.07
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English 555 Pedagogical Workshop Purpose The English 555 students are...
Introduce yourselves to each other early in the semester and begin to talk about what you want to do for this workshop. You will be submitting pieces of the workshop throughout the course of the semester. You will begin the process by submitting a 500 word proposal about what you plan to do. This proposal should entail...
As a group, submit a single hard copy of your proposal to the instructor at the beginning of class on October 10, 2007. To develop your knowledge about the subject that you will be presenting, you will collectively research the subject that you have chosen or the subject matter of conducting in-service workshops. Each group member will be responsible for submitting three annotated entries. Use the annotation instructions for the Progressive Annotated Bibliography to compose your entries. Collect and organize the bibliography into a single document with a 250-350 word introduction that synthesizes how all of the texts will be useful to your workshop. Submit a single hard copy of your annotated bibliography to the instructor at the beginning of class on November 24, 2007. Your last step before conducting the workshop is to submit a plan. In this plan you will...
As a group, submit a single hard copy of your proposal to the instructor at the beginning of class on November 7, 2007. InstructionsWorkshop & Portfolio On December 5, 2007, you will be given the first 50 minutes of class to conduct your workshop. Remember that the English 455 students and your instructor are serving as your workshop attendees. For the end of the workshop, you will want to develop an evaluation form that your attendees can fill out and provide you with immediate feedback. You will want to respond to this feedback in your individual statements. Collect all of the documents that you produced for the workshop, including those that you have already submitted (which do not have to be revised), anything that you handed out during the workshop, and any other documents you find relevant to the process. Place these in a manila folder and submit them to the instructor at the end of class. InstructionsIndividual Statement In a 500-750 word statement...
By writing an individual statement, it gives me a sense of how each member understood the project. For the most part you will receive a group grade; however if there is strong evidence that there was a disparity in the contribution and understanding of the workshop, then individual grades will be given accordingly. Using Blackboard, submit the individual statement to the instructor in the body of an email by the end of the day on Friday, December 7th.
Each of the process documents (Proposal, Research, & Plan) will receive a collaborative process grade; the Individual Statement will receive an individual process grade. The portfolio & presentation will be assigned a collaborative grade out of 100 points. In addition to the general evaluation criteria, the instructor will be looking for evidence of...
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