Event Title
Mini-Writing Partners in Pedagogy
Location
Hart 116
Start Time
15-5-2013 3:00 PM
End Time
15-5-2013 4:00 PM
Description
The time required to write a public account of teaching is often a substantial barrier to producing a publication about teaching, so if we gather our colleagues’ native accounts through the judicious use of writing partners, we can jump start the process. In this workshop, participants will engage in an approach called “mini-writing partners in pedagogy” (Bunnell & Berstein, 2012) to jump start their scholarship of teaching and learning. Participants will have a 30-minute conversation about their teaching with a writing partner who provides prompts for conversation and allows the faculty member to talk freely about their teaching. Using hand-written notes or a portable recorder, the partners construct a draft of the faculty member’s spontaneous reflections as a first version of their public work. For some faculty members this is all the prompting needed, they edit and expand the draft, quickly owning a document that is recognizably their own story.
Mini-Writing Partners in Pedagogy
Hart 116
The time required to write a public account of teaching is often a substantial barrier to producing a publication about teaching, so if we gather our colleagues’ native accounts through the judicious use of writing partners, we can jump start the process. In this workshop, participants will engage in an approach called “mini-writing partners in pedagogy” (Bunnell & Berstein, 2012) to jump start their scholarship of teaching and learning. Participants will have a 30-minute conversation about their teaching with a writing partner who provides prompts for conversation and allows the faculty member to talk freely about their teaching. Using hand-written notes or a portable recorder, the partners construct a draft of the faculty member’s spontaneous reflections as a first version of their public work. For some faculty members this is all the prompting needed, they edit and expand the draft, quickly owning a document that is recognizably their own story.