WID Winter Days Coming in January 2023
WID aims to kick off the Winter semester with a bang by bringing you three events in January 2023. Hopefully, you’ll find something in the events below that can inspire you and your students to greater heights in the new semester.
January 2023 Events
Learning Without Grading: An Introduction to Contract or Specifications Grading
Friday, January 13, 10:00-11:30 am, on Teams. Click here to register.
Over the past few years, several Dawson teachers have experimented with Contract or Specifications grading, which is a way to take the focus off of grades, and instead emphasize each individual’s progress and body of work throughout the semester. In this informal online meetup, three teachers share their experiences with this different paradigm. Three brief presentations followed by questions and conversation. Presenters: Ben Lander (History), Jocelyn Parr (History), Jeff Gandell (English)
Rethinking Community In And Out of the Classroom
Monday, January 16, 10:00-12:00, lunch served from 12:00-1:00. In 3F.38. Click here to register.
How can we foster meaningful relationship-building to support student learning? Join the Writing in the Disciplines 2022 Fellows for a show-and-tell workshop on four strategies for building community within and beyond the classroom: group work, grading and feedback, translingualism, and real-world partnerships. Followed by a delicious lunch. Presenters: Sara Louise Kendall (Geography), Ivan Freud (Religion), Noah Brender (Humanities), Kasia Wolfson (Anthropology), Ahmad Banki (Economics).
Collaborative Writing Technologies for the English Classroom
Wednesday, January 25, 2:30-4:00, in person, in 3F.37. Click here to register.
This workshop is an introduction Miro, an online interactive canvas that can be used for annotation, idea-generating, and other collaborative tasks both in the classroom and at home. Miro is free, easy to use, and requires no sign-in on the part of students or collaborators. It’s an excellent way to create classroom artifacts that can serve as useful class reference materials. Miro is ideally suited to an Active Learning Classroom, but it can be employed just as effectively in any classroom environment. This workshop is geared toward English teachers, but could be of interest to any discipline that requires the reading and discussion of difficult texts. Presenter: Jeff Gandell (English)
