Fall 2025 Workshops
All workshops will be offered online via Zoom.
Title of Workshop
With XXX, Department of XXX
Low-stakes completion-based grading takes the emphasis off judging students in relation
to one another and rewards students for taking the small steps that facilitate learning.
It is a form of labor-based grading in which my students thrive. In consultations
and evaluations, students describe it helping them to experience less overwhelm, less
stress, and a higher sense of accomplishment. While I have always had scaffolding
activities, in 2023-2024 I began using this practice. I find in this structure students
do more of the course-work. Thus, they learn step-by-step practices more, enhance
skills, and develop confidence through seeing that they can actually do the work.
This workshop will offer an introduction to low-stakes completion-based grading as a form of contract-based grading. It will also talk about rubrics to navigate these grading practices. Rubrics offer both meaningful feedback for students and strain reduction on teachers. The workshops also touch on using minimum grading as a context.
Workshop Dates and Times:
Friday, February 21, 2:00pm to 3:15pm
Monday, February 24, 12:00 noon to 1:15pm
Wednesday, March 5, 4:30pm to 5:45pm
Introduction to Writing Across the Curriculum (Workshop is Full and Sign-Ups Are Closed)
With Tom Moriarty, Director of the Writing Across the Curriculum Program
This workshop introduces strategies and techniques for successfully integrating writing
into all of your classes, from first-year introductory courses to senior- and graduate-level
capstones and theses. We begin by exploring writing as a process, then consider the
forms and functions of disciplinary genres and how they work to structure and organize,
enable and constrain, the ways we write and communicate as professionals. Finally,
we put all this deep thinking together and develop writing assignments and assignment
sequences for use in our classes.
This workshop will meet weekly for four consecutive weeks, beginning the week of February 24. Participating faculty will earn $500.
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