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.