This past week’s focus in 388V has been on facilitating effective discussions, both in-person and online. Your UTAs read and watched the following: Napell’s Six Common Non-facilitating Behaviors. Napell’s 1976 article could have been written yesterday. In it, she explains why students fall silent in the face of ineffective questioning strategies, including “rapid rewards,” insufficient […]
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UTA Feedback to Students
We’ve started group presentations in 388V, which means groups of UTAs are facilitating the online discussion and leading the in-person seminar each week. Group topics range from facilitating peer review to creating inclusive classrooms to teaching professional writing and more. Last week in my section, the topic was Responding to Student Writing.The group chose an […]