The Institute will be offering Lunchtime seminars and presentations on topics to enhance teaching and learning. The seminars provide an opportunity to gather with colleagues to listen, discuss, comment, interact, and reflect on a number of topics. They are organized on a first-come, first-served basis. Seminars are from 11:15 a.m. to 1:10 p.m. All seminars will be held in the John W. Rowe Center for Undergraduate Education (ROWE), Room 321.
A boxed lunch will be provided. If you have special dietary needs (vegetarian, gluten free, or both) please e-mail Stacey Valliere.
The seminars are available to faculty, graduate students, and professional staff. Reservations are required and are accepted on a first-come-first serve basis. If you have signed up and are not able to attend, your colleagues would appreciate it if you let us know, as we often have waiting lists. Feedback from you is also important. It will help us focus as well as plan a more diverse program.
Online registration is required. Please be sure to fill in all the required fields.
Responding to Student Writing: Are There Better Ways to Grade?
Tom Deans, English and CETL-ITL – University Writing Center
Friday, February 7, 2014
Responding to drafts and grading student papers are among the most time-consuming things we do in writing-intensive courses across the disciplines. In this session we’ll debunk some common grading practices that research suggests simply don’t result in much learning (like copy-editing student drafts); we’ll also explore pragmatic strategies that work better. Responding to student writing will always take time and care, but it need not involve endless hours of correcting and suffering.
To register and view other upcoming seminars, please visit the following site. http://itl.uconn.edu/seminars/
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu