The final workshop in a series of three held in 2023-2024, this workshop will be devoted to reflection on participants’ teaching in STEM disciplines over the 2023-24 academic year and on faculty members’ experiments with writing-based teaching practices. Faculty will share their successes, discoveries, and challenges in implementing and experimenting with writing-based teaching practices in their classrooms. The workshop will consider strategies for building prompts and questions that help students make connections between assigned readings, course concepts, and their own lives. It will also consider best practices for building from exploratory in-class writing to formal assignments, and consider how large language models such as ChatGPT change how we scaffold writing assignments for our students.

The workshop will be led by Dr. Dumaine Williams (B.A., Bard College, M.A., Montclair State University, Ph.D., Stony Brook University) is Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of the Early College for Bard College. He has led Language & Thinking and IWT workshops for faculty and students at several college and early college campuses and teacher certification and in-service training workshops for faculty in various school districts. Dumaine's area of focus at IWT is writing to learn in STEM disciplines and his areas of research and teaching include endocrinology, epidemiology and health inequality. 

This event is sponsored by Writing Across Communities.

The link to join this online workshop will be sent to you prior to the event.