Professional Development: Writing Pedagogy

Catalog description

This class prepares students for working with writers in the college setting, both one-on-one and in the classroom with an emphasis on online teaching and learning. A range of teaching models (including expressive, collaborative, critical, trauma-informed, antiracist contemplative, and feminist philosophies and praxis) are investigated, and practical methods for working with writers are developed. Strategies for engaging with the writing process, providing feedback on student work, and developing lesson plans are explored. Students construct a foundation for their own pedagogical approaches, based firmly on the theories they value. Students build tools for teaching early college composition and nonfiction workshops in online asynchronous classrooms. Students in this course must also be registered for week one of the Summer Writing Program. Open to MFA Creative Writing low-residency students only.