English 730/830: Teaching Writing
Course Schedule, Assignments,
& Readings
Dr. Gian Pagnucci
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Current Assignment
Assignments
due for Apr.
30
- Bring some sort of food to share
at our end-of-the-semester celebration
- I'll return additional
documents with comments at the celebration
- Work on your
Teacher Portfolio
- Your portfolio may be
completed in electronic or print form (whatever you prefer)
- Be sure to include a
Reflective Statement (1-2 pages; single or double spaced)
discussing all your work for the course
- No reading required for this week
Assignment
Teacher Portfolio
due for May 7
- Compete your
Teacher Portfolio
- Your portfolio may be
completed in electronic or print form (whatever you prefer)
- Be sure to include a
Reflective Statement (1-2 pages; single or double spaced)
discussing all your work for the course
Assignment
due for your
career
- Final
Assignment: Spend your career working to be a GREAT TEACHER
Course Schedule (Spring, 2007)
Weeks 1-4: What
sort of writing matters?
January
15 Monday:
Martin Luther King Day (No Class)
January 22 Monday:
Class Introduction
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Course Overview
- Douglas Coupland's Life After
God
- Freewrite on the topic: "Why does
writing really matter?"
- Listen to Stephen King's On Writing
Assignment
due for Jan. 29
- Write a Literacy Story
about a reading and/or writing event(s) from your past that impacted
your views of how to teach literacy (1-2 pages long, double spaced)
- Make enough copies of the story
for the whole class
January 29 Monday:
Literacy Stories
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Share Literacy Story
- Discuss literacy stories in small
groups
- Begin creating/editing Teacher
Home Web Pages
Assignments
due for Feb.
5
- Read from Living the
Narrative Life
- Part Two (Sharing Your Story)
- Part Three (Telling Your Own
Story)
- Part Six (Telling School
Stories)
February 5 Monday:
Teaching Narrative Writing
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Discuss issues surrounding having
students write personal narratives
- Discuss Living the
Narrative Life
Assignments
due for Feb. 12
- Read from The St. Martin's Guide to
Teaching Writing
- Chapter 7 "Teaching
Composing Processes"
- Read from Comp Tales
Weeks 5-6: The
Writing Process
February 12 Monday:
The Writing Process
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Discuss the writing process
- Develop Writer Interview
Questions
Assignment
due for Feb.
19
- Read from The Writing
Teacher's Sourcebook
- Section called
"Perspectives" (pp. 3-53)
- Section called "Composing
and Revising" (pp. 279-309)
February 19 Monday:
Writing Teacher Metaphors
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Work on writer interview
questions
- Write teaching metaphor
statement
- As a group, create system for
critiquing metaphor statements
Assignment
due for Feb.
26
- On email, as a group finalize
a solid set of 5-10 questions for writer interview
- Select two questions as a
group for us to use for practice
Weeks 7-9: Designing
Effective Writing Courses
February 26 Monday:
Guest Writer & Practice Interviewing
Class Activities & Topics for
Discussion
- Finalize writer interview
questions
- Interview Guest Writer
- Discuss interview
- Practice with audio technology
Assignments
due for Mar.
5
- Begin conducting professional
writer interviews (for the next 5 weeks)
- Read from Scenarios for
Teaching Writing
- Part 6: "Teaching Writing:
Course Designs" (skim this section; no need to read in
overly great detail)
- Read from The St. Martin's Guide to
Teaching Writing
- Chapter 3 "Everyday
Activities"
- If you have access to any
course syllabi that interest you, please feel free to bring them
along, preferably in electronic format
March 5 Monday:
Writing Course Designs
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Write Composition Course
Objectives
- Design a Composition (or similar)
Course (alone or with a partner[s])
- Full class discussion of composition course designs
Assignments
due for Mar.
22 Film Night
- Bring $2 towards pizza for
dinner with our film
- Bring a small dish to share
March 12 Monday
IUP
Spring Break (No Class)
- No Regular Class Meeting
- Use IUP
holiday to
work on writing assignment paper
- Bring some food to enjoy with the
film and $2 for the pizza
Weeks 10-13:
Teaching Effectively
March 19 Monday:
TESOL & CCCC
Conferences (NO CLASS)
March 26 Monday:
Good Teachers: View Film Finding Forrester (Bring a snack to
share and $2 for pizza)
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
Assignment
due for April 2
- Read from The St. Martin's Guide to
Teaching Writing
- Chapter 4 "Successful
Writing Assignments"
- Read from The Writing
Teacher's Sourcebook
- Section called "Assigning"
(pp. 193-242)
- Create DRAFT
of Syllabus to hand in
- Work on conducting interview with
professional writer (be sure to complete your interview by April 23)
- Be sure to make a recording of
the interview, preferably a digital recording, which you can
give to Dr. Pagnucci
April
2 Monday: Writing Assignment Design
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Assign Reading Groups for
Scenarios for Teaching Writing Book
- Discuss Finding Forrester
- Syllabus DUE
- Design a writing assignment
(alone or with a partner[s]) for a 1-3 page paper
- Full class discussion of writing assignments
- Writing Assignment Print
Out Due by End of Class
Assignments
due for April 9
- Paper Due: write 3-5 page paper based on
someone else's writing assignment
- Read from Scenarios for Teaching
Writing
- Part 1: "Creating
Effective Writing Assignments"
- Part 3: "Responding to Student
Writing"
- AND Part 2
"Readings," 4 "Grammar," or 5 "Discourse"
(depending on which group you are in)
April
9 Monday: Discuss Scenarios for Teaching Writing Book with Dr. Williamson's class
--Meet in Dr. Williamson's Classroom (Leonard 211?)
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Discuss Scenarios for
Teaching Writing Book
- Our class will be meeting with Dr.
Williamson's class because Dr.
Pagnucci will be gone making a presentation at the
American
Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) Annual
Meeting)
- Paper based on someone
else's writing assignment DUE
- Be sure to give you paper
to the assignment designer so they will have time to
evaluate it before our next class session
Assignments
due for April 16
- Read from The St. Martin's
Guide to Teaching Writing
- Chapter 6 "Responding to
and Evaluating Student Essays"
- Read from The Writing
Teacher's Sourcebook
- Section called "Responding
and Assessing" (pp. 243-278)
- Create Rubric for evaluating
the assignment you designed
- Evaluate the paper written for
your assignment
Weeks 14:
Writing Assessment
April 16 Monday:
Writing Response & Evaluation
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Discuss assessing and grading
students' writing
- Discuss rubric for your
writing assignment
- Discuss your evaluation of student paper using
your rubric
- Get feedback from writer about
your assignment
- Modify your rubric
- Rubric Print Out Due by End
of Class
- Maybe discuss Statements of
Teaching Philosophy
Assignments
due for Apr.
23
- write Reflective Group Paper (2-3 pages)
about writer interview
- I want to hear what your group
thought about the project, developing your interview questions,
what the person said in response to those questions, what
interviewing the writer has led you to think about teaching
writing, etc. (and all in only 2-3 pages!!!)--Basically, I want
to see what, as a group, interviewing this writer helped you
learn about teaching writing
- you may meet as a group to
write this or trade drafts via email
- a collaboratively written
paper is an excellent way to think about what your group got out
of the interview and to hear what other people thought
- one model for this would
be to discuss a few highlights from what the writer said and
then what those highlights cause the group to think about in
terms of pedagogy
- a paper in which each person
contributes to an overall theme or set of issues would also be
fine
- one nice model for this
approach is to offer a general introduction and conclusion
raising some key issues with individual commentary about
those issues making up the body of the paper
- be sure your group has also turned
in a digital recording of your writer
interview
- draft of
Statement of Teaching
Philosophy (1 page) due
- Read from Donald
Murray's Learning by Teaching
- Read Part III The Process of
Teaching
Weeks 15-16:
Writing Assessment
April
23 Monday: Teacher & Writer Images
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
-
Statement of Teaching
Philosophy Due (enough copies for the class)
- Discuss professional writer
interviews
- Work with interview audio
recordings
- Discuss Teaching
Philosophy Statements
- Discuss Donald Murray's Learning by Teaching
- Reflective Group Paper (2-3 pages)
about writer interview Due
Assignments
due for Apr.
30
- Bring some sort of food to share
at our end-of-the-semester celebration
- Work on completing your
Teacher Portfolio
- No reading required for this week
April 30. Monday:
Celebration Day
& Teaching Portfolio DUE
--Celebration will be held at Dr. Williamson's House (bring a dish to
share which represents your culture)
Class Activities & Topics for Discussion
- Final Class
Meeting
- Teaching
Portfolio DUE including:
- reflective statement
- course syllabus
- writing assignment
- assignment rubric
- Statement of Teaching
Philosophy (1 page)
- Reflective Group Paper (2-3
pages) about writer interview
- Full class discussion of
- Class party
Assignment
due for your
career
- Final
Assignment: Spend your career working to be a GREAT TEACHER
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