Opening Check-in (20 min)

Let’s check in about these questions:

  • How are things going this week in general?
  • What is one concern you have for prepping for your first day or first week?
  • What is one thing you are excited about doing in your teaching this term?
  • What is one thing you want help with or want to work on in your teaching this term?

Answer at least one of these questions, but answer as many as you’d like to. Once you answer, pass it on to someone else by calling their name.

Course Logistics (10-20 min)

Let’s go over what the goals of the course are, the rhythms we will be in for the class, the kinds of assignments you will do, how to use the website, etc.

We will do this mostly be clicking around the website, talking, and doing some Q&A.

Mentor Assignments:

Prof. Brooke Schreiber – Ghenwa

Prof. Amy Baily – Jahyeon

Prof. Harold Ramdass – Alexander

Baruch Usernames:

Ghenwa: GAntonios

Jahyeon: JKwon1

Alexander: AOrejuela

Lesson Planning (20-30 min)

Thursday, August 25 Lesson Plan – ENG 2100, Fall 2022: Knowledge Soup (cuny.edu)

Tuesday, August 30 Lesson Plan – ENG 2100, Fall 2022: Knowledge Soup (cuny.edu)

A lot of my early classes are really just setting up the infrastructure and classroom community. Typically, there is A LOT more of a focus on writing: reading each other’s writing, workshopping, style workshops, independent writing time, etc. But I wanted to talk through the lessons just as a way to talk about structures of lessons in general.

This is just how *I* do things, and there are many other ways: a list on a piece of paper, a loose script, etc. For instance, here is one that is not student-facing like mine: notes-for-Tues_Sept-8-Lisa-Lesson-Plan-Example.docx (live.com)

What has your approach been so far? What have you done in the past? What have you noticed about your lesson plans vs. how the class has gone?

You Pick: Independent Work Time or Going Over Literacy Narrative Prompt / Assignment Writing

We can try this and if we don’t like it we don’t have to do it, but I thought it might be useful to make time to work independently on materials for teaching like your Literacy Narrative prompt, lesson planning, unit planning, etc.

Choose what you’d like to work on. I’m going to check in and ask questions like to pause and take stock of what you are doing and what you have questions/concerns/comments about.

Alternatively, I can walk you through Literacy Assignment designs and talk about writing assignments, rubrics, evaluation criteria, tying things to learning goals, etc.

Next Time (2-5 min)

Activities: Discuss your Literacy Narrative assignments, schedule meeting with mentor, goal setting

Readings: Read and be prepared to discuss these three (very) short blog posts by Professor Mike Rose:

Writing: