Presentation given to FT and PT English faculty.

1. Agenda for today’s meeting
Contextualize recent curriculum redesign in English 1010 and 2010 at SLCC
Small to large group discussion
Reflection writing prompts
Possibilities for instructional teams

2. Goals of our recent curricular work
Address challenges with student retention and success in gateway courses
Create curricular coherence in and across composition courses

3. Conceptual framework for writing
Forms an explicit basis for teaching and learning about writing
Rooted in knowledge transfer and metacognition
Helps faculty unify curriculum at conceptual level

4. Open educational resources
Enables us to produce and curate materials
Allows us to speak to the curricular framework
Creates opportunities for collaboration and
development

5. Small to large group discussion
As a small group, take 15 minutes to identify 1-2 primary teaching challenges or curiosities of
the 1010/2010 curriculum that you’d like to problem solve with the whole group.
This might be a larger pedagogical issue or something on a smaller scale, such as a particular
unit or assignment.
Once your small group ideas are solidified, we’ll discuss them as a whole group.

6. Reflective writing prompts
Go back to the Instructor Guide and focus on the course you’re teaching.
Look through the units and materials and think about where we might include reflective writing
that could be used to assess students’ learning, particularly information related to their
internalization/application of the major writing concepts.