Apply for the TU Writing Center’s Summer Pedagogy Retreat
The TU Writing Center is now accepting faculty applications for our 2024 Cohort on Writing Pedagogy.
Faculty selected to participate will earn a $1000 stipend to participate in the four-day professional development seminar that covers contemporary best practices for teaching writing across the curriculum, including assignment design and assessment, discipline-based threshold concepts, and collaboration with course-embedded tutors.
The seminar takes place on campus July 22-25, 2024. Participants will meet from 10am-3pm with lunch provided each day. All faculty participants will have the opportunity to embed a highly trained student writing fellow into a writing-intensive course in fall 2024 and/or spring 2025. Learn more and apply!
Faculty partners gain strategies for improving writing instruction and a supportive community dedicated to freshening pedagogy. Student Writing Fellows benefit faculty by serving as intermediaries between faculty and students, reporting patterns of concern among students and providing insights on student misunderstandings about assignment prompts and rubrics. Students enrolled in fellowed courses benefit from a sense of community in the classroom and ongoing writing support throughout the semester.
Faculty chosen to participate would be asked to meet the following expectations:
- Attend the week-long Summer Writing Pedagogy Retreat and complete all assigned reading and homework
- Develop a learner-centered syllabus for the fellowed class
- Revise at least one major writing assignment and rubric to prioritize the writing process, reward risk, and foster transferable skill development
- Provide mentoring and guidance for embedded Writing Fellow in the fall and/or spring semester
- Attend pre-semester and mid-term faculty cohort meetings during active terms
Application Criteria for Faculty
- Teach a writing-intensive course in any discipline. Courses are considered “writing-intensive” if they include 2 or more major writing assignments that incorporate revision. Priority will be given to faculty who teach TSEM and Core 9 classes.
- Provide a syllabus and sample writing assignment for the course you would like to fellow. (Drafts of these documents are acceptable.)
2024 Application Timeline for Faculty
- Call for applications March 11, 2024
- Applications due April 22, 2024
- Deliberations May 6-10, 2024
- Decisions announced May 11, 2024
- Summer Writing Pedagogy Retreat July 22-25, 2024
Contact Mairin Barney at ebarney@towson.edu or visit the Writing Fellows web page for more information.
Tags: Faculty, Pedagogy, Training and Development, Writing CenterCategorised in: General
This post was written by Barney, E. Mairin