May 26, Part II: What to do for Class June 2

Important Dates:

Final class meeting on June 10, in the Writing Center, 4:00. We will use this meeting to make consolidate final plans for the Facilitator Training Program, which will begin Monday, June 11.

Meeting with EEO Counselors on June 7, in the EEO Learning Assistance Center.

1. Read:

1. Handout on content of EEO Counseling program.

2. Gutierrez (handout)

2. Blogs:

Program design document(s) 4: Protocol sheets for Studio sessions specific to the study/writing issues students will bring to Studio meetings. These should be similar to the Reading Protocol (draft proposed on Google.docs), and to the point by point descriptions in Grego & Thompson delineating how to conduct studio sessions. These protocols would be classified as falling into categories 1 & 2 ( listed in the May 26, Part I blog).

Planning document(s) 4: as you read Gutierrez, create a list of facilitation plans ( to respond to "what ifs) to provide rehearsed language for use in activities and interventions in Studio sessions. These protocols would fall under category 3 (in the May 26, Part I blog).

3. Write: With your group, organize the project so that each of you can started on writing for on particular section. Bring writing for your section to class. In class, you will work in Studio groups (not your own group) to develop your section. You will use an approximation of the Studio protocol for presenting writing suggested by Grego & Thompson (and posted on Google.docs).

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What we will do in class on June 2

We will begin by mapping out an agreed upon conceptual timeline (yes, I know, we were supposed to do this during last class) for the program, and placing the different activities required in the program planning document within that timeline.

Then we are going to do some specific work on discussing how to integrate the counseling/work with netbook work into the sequence of studio sessions.

I will then give a presentation on developing the Facilitator Training Program.

The rest of class time will be devoted to reflective-practice of Studio work on sections for Project 1 (see Protocol for bringing Writing Projects to Studio).

Developing the documents and practices for the Facilitator training program is a challenging task given our timeline - but I am confident we are going to come through with an outstanding product. Thank you for your excellent work so far in this course - and I am excited to dig into the facilitator training program!