Writing Across the Curriculum Training for New Communication-B TAs, UW-Madison, Spring 2024

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Every semester, the Writing Across the Curriculum program at UW-Madison offers a required 2-day training for TAs from across campus who are teaching their first Communication-B course:

- Tuesday, January 16, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, 6191, Zoom

AND

- Wednesday, January 17, 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM, Zoom

In addition, there will be a brief asynchronous module to complete before the training begins as well as a brief asynchronous module to complete by week 6 in the semester. You will receive an invitation to a Canvas site 1-2 weeks before the training.

Email *

Please use your wisc.edu email address.

First name *

Last name *

Position *

undergraduate teaching assistant

graduate teaching assistant

academic staff

faculty

Other:

Your home (graduate) department *

Comm-B course you will be teaching in Spring 2023 (department, course number, course title) *

What format are you teaching in? *

in-person

online

hybrid

Other:

For your class, will you (check all that apply): *

structure and plan the entire course

design discussion activities

design writing assignments

grade papers

Other:

Required

To get a better sense of who will be in the training, we would like to learn more about your background in teaching writing. Please share your experience in the following areas: *

No experience

Some experience

A lot of experience

Structuring a full writing course

Designing writing assignments

Offering written feedback to students

Holding conferences with student

From the list below, please select two or three topics that you are most interested in learning about during this Writing Across the Curriculum training. Thank you! *

Antiracist approaches to teaching writing

designing effective assignments

peer review of drafts

teaching presentation skills

conferencing with students (meeting individually with students to discuss their papers), which is a required part of communication-b courses

motivating students to do substantial revisions of their papers

helping multilingual (ESL) writers succeed in your course

responding to and evaluating student writing

writing activities to foster discussion

Other:

Required

Writing Across the Curriculum is committed to creating inclusive and accessible events. If you need a reasonable accommodation on Zoom, please indicate this below. We will do our best to accommodate you.

A copy of your responses will be emailed to the address you provided.

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