Paul Quick, PhDCoordinator of Faculty and TA Development

Intellectual Dialogue:Writing in FYOS

First-Year Odyssey Seminar Workshops

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Goals for this FYOS workshop

•Consider FYOS Goal 2 and writing

•Consider Goal 2 through conceptual change

theory

•Consider a variety of writing assignments

FYOS Goal 2

Give first-year students an opportunity for meaningful dialogue with a faculty member to encourage positive, sustained student-faculty interactions.

Inclusion of one or more written exercises that: document dialogue between student and facultyguide students in thinking and rethinking

academic issues related to FYOS topic

FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change Theory

Students frequently hold views different from or alternative to those to which they will be exposed in their courses.

Example: Aristotelian v. Newtonian thinking in Intro. Physics class

Ken Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do (2004)

FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change Theory

Troublesome Knowledge

Threshold Concepts

Ray Land’s Threshold Concepts & Transformational Learning (2010)

FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change Model

Think about your own discipline and your FYOS

What concepts do students find difficult?

How will you determine their preconceptions?

How will you challenge those preconceptions?

How will you know if you have successfully

changed their mental models?

FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change & Writing

Recursive Writing Process Prewriting, drafting, rewriting Forward, backward, forward with feedback Multi-stage writing assignment Criteria and standards

Rubrics

Judith and Calvin Kalman, “Writing to Learn” (1998)Peter Elbow,Writing without Teachers (1973)

FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change & Writing

Examples of Writing Assignments for FYOS Suggested by Department of English Faculty

 Sequenced Low/Mid-stakes Writing

Assignment Example: Listening journals--series of specific prompts

Three-Panel Argument Poster And Oral Presentation

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FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change & Writing

Critical Article Report

Library/Galileo search for related scholarly article

Summary and reflection paper (1-2 pages)

Oral presentation (3-5 minutes) Visual presentation (max. 3 slides) Discussion question

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FYOS Goal 2: Other Writing Assignments

JournalsMinute paperseLC discussionsBlogsWritten work of between the faculty and

student in the preparation of: a poster presentation an oral presentation a mathematical proof other projects.