Want Students Who Are Better Readers & Critical Thinkers?
Join us for the PURSUE TRUTH QEP Faculty Workshops. Sessions will include:
- Foundations of Reading and Learning
- Motivating Students to Read
- How Do We Decode Reading?
- AI and Changing Reading Practices
Starting in Summer 2023, the workshops are open to ALL full-time faculty teaching. Participating faculty will receive a $2,100 stipend and refreshments, including breakfast and lunch. Please note that applicants must be able to attend all workshop sessions in their entirety and be willing to participate in QEP assessment after they’ve launched their new assignments. The PURSUE TRUTH Workshop will be a five-day session held once in the Spring term (five consecutive Fridays) and once in the Summer term (one week long), and will meet from 8:30 AM- 3:00 PM.
Applications are accepted year-round. Apply Today!
This workshop provided me with valuable tools I will be able to successfully implement into my instruction to help me students with one of the things they most struggle with: purposeful, transferrable reading! The pace, tone, and content of the workshops made learning easy and accessible, and I am so grateful to have the opportunity to take part. I look forward to reaching out over the summer as I begin planning my fall syllabus.
I came in assuming critical reading wasn't my problem to solve. [...] I left realizing I had it backwards, the reading is exactly where my students struggle. The most useful sessions were decoding and the evaluative-descriptive distinction, because they named and fixed two problems I already had, students freezing on jargon and giving vague "looks weird" feedback. Going forward, a check-in next semester after I've launched these would help, plus support sharing this with the rest of the game-design faculty. Thank you for slowing me down enough to see it.
I got lots of ideas on activities I can implement in my classes. I am excited to go back and get things solidified and see if they have a positive impact on student learning. I feel like my discipline is so far removed from parts of what was covered but still feel like I learned lots of new strategies. It's been a fun week and was well worth the time.
As an assistant professor and a PhD, walking into the QEP workshop, I thought I already knew how to read. Boy, was I wrong? Five days later, I realized I had only ever scratched the surface. [...] I came in as an intuitive reader. I leave as a more intentional one, and that changes everything about how I teach. I hope my students find the value in all of these activities I am about to introduce to my class.
I walked away from this QEP as inspired as the last QEP (IDW). In some ways, I could argue the motivational aspect of the QEP is the most important. Personally, this past year (or two or three) have been draining the energy I have available to me to give to ODU. Being in the QEP has reminded me of why I am here. I have incredibly gifted teacher-scholars as colleagues from whom I can continue to learn from with the primary goal of better the lives of our students. Thank you.
Having completed both the IDW workshop and now the Pursue Truth workshop, I can easily say both have been highlights of my time here at ODU.