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 A New Project for FY 07-08:



        “Making Integrated Education Work: Tying Writing

        And Critical Thinking to the Academy Model”


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year later, as a dedicated Writing Center, the department has a much better idea where and in what forms the gaps between student need and service delivery exist; how and at what pace students utilize academic support services; where and in what kinds of configurations learning academies functionally operate; and how WI pedagogy might become fully realized as an intrinsic part of the campus’ culture under the College’s Integrated Education plan.


Learning from its experiences over the last year, the foci of the Campus Writing Center over this coming year will reflect certain modifications, designed to parallel the College’s paradigm shift toward facilitating an integrated educational experience for students.


While continuing to deliver the same services it provided over 06-07, the Campus Writing Center will begin an amplification of its services during 07-08. The Center will establish an overall theme – “Making Integrated Education Work: Tying Writing and Critical Thinking to the Academy Model” – through which new 07-08 program activities are driven.


The overall design of this coming year’s Campus Writing Center services will be characterized by 6 specific initiatives:


1. Continuing to provide 1-to-1 and small group tutoring/e-tutoring for EN & WI coursework, and other writing-related assignments;

2. Continuing to Implement Test Prep Workshops for ACT, CPE and ATB Writing exams;

3. Continuing to create hard-copy and electronically-formatted student learning materials, worksheets, workbooks and handbooks for all activities conducted by the Campus Writing Center, including tutoring, e-tutoring, and tutor training, as well as ACT and CPE student prep materials, and critical thinking materials;

4. Facilitating student acquisition of Information Literacy through interfacing with Library, e-Portfolio, and educational technology applications;

5. Developing an ESL arm of the Campus Writing Center for broadening facilitator training and providing specific grammar and language supports for students who are non-native speakers of English;

6. Initiating the CWC Critical Thinking Institute:

• Collaborating with faculty to develop and implement Critical Thinking workshops for students, tailored to specific skill-sets/curricula, and delivered at cornerstone, milestone and capstone junctures.

a. CWC will provide materials development for, and initiate and maintaining an ongoing collaboration with, faculty and students from the Technology Academy, to enable the delivery of a Critical Thinking B2R-type workshop to their Spring 08 students;

• Collaborating with faculty to conduct faculty development workshops exploring strategies and materials for facilitating higher critical thinking skills in and out of the classroom.

a. CWC will maintain an ongoing collaboration with the College’s e-Portfolio initiative and will facilitate the implementation of an online pedagogical structure accommodating Technology Academy students’ ability to develop, display, upload, and assess a project reflective of their achievement of the Academy’s identified cornerstone competencies.

 

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