- Move from multiple assignments that I grade conference to 2 main foci for upper level courses
- Introduce writer's notebook
- Introduce unessay earlier
- Make these two the center of courses with grade conferences at midterms, and reflective letters at the end of the semester for finals
- Students will now present their unessays during final exam time. There was confusion over this last semester
- They'll choose 10 pages from writer's notebook that present best work and write reflections
- They'll write a letter to me about course
- For the composition classes, stop grading the low-stakes assignments, and go all in on major writing assignments
- I'll instead do the LSAs and just do in class check-ins
- Cut class policies and guidelines from syllabus entirely, revise how I present to students
- Put all holidays on schedule
- Redesign schedule to focus on essential questions
- Change how I use Blackboard. Last semester since I only teach face to face classes, I really did not use Bb much. I uploaded syllabus, and built in modules, but I did not end up using them. I did use announcements, uploading one every Sunday for the week ahead. So, this semester I'm going to lock an announcement with the links to our syllabus and class notes (since these were the things students needed most last semester) but I'm going to hide the rest. We're given set modules, which helps the students navigate across courses but I also found it was often overwhelming, especially to first year students, and a lot of students thought because there was a Bb shell (all classes have them) the class was online. So I'm going to simplify things.
- No longer upload work. Students grade conference, so there's no need to submit. Some students would submit, but never grade conference, most never submitted, and it was a point of confusion. So I'm just not having them submit work because it's practical.
- DO continue to use to post grades so students always have access. I DO like that students can always know/see what their grade is.
My Spring 2020 Classes are:
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