Pathways
If your course was selected for Pathways data collection, you would have received a couple of email notifications by this point. Jenna and I will follow up with emails about this process later in the semester, closer to when data is due.
Spring Office Hours
Jenna has updated hokieswrite.com with the spring office hours (about/people/faculty and gtas). If you haven’t sent her your syllabus with your office hours, please do so as soon as possible.
Fall Teaching Assignments
As Jared mentioned at our faculty meeting today, and as we’ve discussed in the past, incoming GTAs are now only teaching 1106. Once this transition occurred, this change has the effect of more instructors teaching 1105. For Fall 25, currently, instructors will primarily be teaching 1105 instead of 1106. I know that some of you haven’t taught 1105 in several years. Hokieswrite.com has updated curriculum maps using Everyone’s an Author and some updated project descriptions, if you haven’t looked through them. We’re also holding our last Brown Bag to help with this transition. (Please see below.) If you have any questions about this transition, please let Jenna or me know.
Spring 2025 Brown Bags
The UWP will be holding two Brown Bags this semester. The first Brown Bag will be on Monday, February 24th at 12:15 in Shanks 370/380, and we’ll focus on active engagement. Topics will include class discussion, group work, and student participation, and the format will be a roundtable. The second Brown Bag will be on Monday, April 7th at 12:15, where we will focus on teaching 1105; we’ll go through assignments and scaffolding, as well as answer any questions you have. This workshop will also be made available online so that instructors can access it later as you build your materials over the summer.
Hokies Spotlight and Teaching Blog
If you have any accomplishments that you would like to highlight on hokieswrite.com, please send them my way. In addition, if you would like to contribute to the Teaching Blog on the website, please send me any writing you would like to share; as long as it relates to pedagogy and first-year writing in some way, the format and style are very flexible.