Orientation agenda

Attached is an agenda for our annual orientation on Wednesday the 19th. You'll see that we're trying something different this year, breaking up our larger group by courses taught and covering common topics but in ways that emphasize either 1010 or 2010/2020. Of course a number of you teach both first and second semester comp, so you can choose which group you'd like to work with.

Agenda

8:00-8:30 Informal Meet and Greet LA 116
Coffee and snacks available

8:30-9:50 General Orientation LA 023
All part time instructors meet for general orientation.

• welcome from department administration and staff
• Program updates, general Q&A
• Introduction to portfolios and embedding in current scholarship (by Gae Lyn)
• writing lab representative

10-10:50 Breakout #1

1010 instructors LA 106
Student engagement: discussion led by Angie Carter

2010/2020 instructors LI 205
Library services orientation


11-11:50 Breakout #2

1010 instructors LI 206
Library services orientation

2010/2020 instructors LA 106
Assignment sequence review: Second-semester instructors bring syllabi from last (or previous) semester and work together to develop/fine tune course plans; to include pacing, approaches to content, opportunities for revision, matters of length, number/type of sources required, and so on. Discussion will include portfolio generation plans and strategies.


12-12:50 Breakout #3

1010 instructors LA 112
Assignment sequence review: First-semester instructors bring syllabi from last (or previous) semester and work together to develop/fine tune course plans; to include pacing, approaches to content, opportunities for revision, matters of length, number/type of sources required, and so on. Discussion will include portfolio generation plans and strategies.

2010/2020 instructors LA 106
Student engagement: discussion led by Lovisa Lyman

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Please note that one of our activities is an assignment sequence review (2010/2020 at 11, 1010 at 12). Please bring a copy of a recent syllabus so we can talk about how the implementation of assignment sequences has gone for you in the past couple of years, share strategies and experiences, and begin mapping out syllabi for fall.


We're almost fully staffed for fall, thanks to the willingness of some of you to take additional class sections, and especially to new instructors who are joining us this year. We'll likely be facing tremendous enrollment pressure in the first couple of week of class, and we'll have some time on Wednesday to review departmental/institutional add policies and to field any questions or concerns you have about handling waves of unenrolled students.

Sorry that some of you who are no longer teaching for us will still receive emails on the listserv for the time being, and new instructors aren't yet added. I hope to get with IT this week to work out subscription problems. Please remember that program notices are copied to this blog, so let me encourage you to subscribe at least for feeds, if not also to participate as a contributor in discussions with other instructors in the program.

See you Wednesday if not before.