1. Paul Quick, PhD Coordinator of Faculty and TA Development Intellectual Dialogue: Writing in FYOS First-Year Odyssey Seminar Workshops

2. Questions via the web? Submit via webform:  ctl.uga.edu/fyos/stream ctl.uga.edu/fyos/stream via Twitter:  @ugactl (use tag #FYOS) @ugactl (use tag #FYOS)

3. Goals for this FYOS workshop Consider FYOS Goal 2 and writing Consider Goal 2 through conceptual change theory Consider a variety of writing assignments

4. FYOS Goal 2 Give first-year students an opportunity for meaningful dialogue with a faculty member to encourage positive, sustained student- faculty interactions.  Inclusion of one or more written exercises that: document dialogue between student and faculty guide students in thinking and rethinking academic issues related to FYOS topic

5. FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change Theory Students frequently hold views different from or alternative to those to which they will be exposed in their courses. Example: Aristotelian v. Newtonian thinking in Intro. Physics class Ken Bain’s What the Best College Teachers Do (2004)

6. FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change Theory Troublesome Knowledge Threshold Concepts Ray Land’s Threshold Concepts & Transformational Learning (2010)

7. FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change Model Think about your own discipline and your FYOS What concepts do students find difficult? How will you determine their preconceptions? How will you challenge those preconceptions? How will you know if you have successfully changed their mental models?

8. FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change & Writing Recursive Writing Process  Prewriting, drafting, rewriting  Forward, backward, forward with feedback  Multi-stage writing assignment  Criteria and standards  Rubrics Judith and Calvin Kalman, “Writing to Learn” (1998) Peter Elbow,Writing without Teachers (1973)

9. FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change & Writing Examples of Writing Assignments for FYOS Suggested by Department of English Faculty Sequenced Low/Mid-stakes Writing Assignment  Example: Listening journals--series of specific prompts Three-Panel Argument Poster And Oral Presentation www.ctl.uga.edu/fyos

10. FYOS Goal 2: Conceptual Change & Writing Critical Article Report  Library/Galileo search for related scholarly article  Summary and reflection paper (1-2 pages)  Oral presentation (3-5 minutes)  Visual presentation (max. 3 slides)  Discussion question www.ctl.uga.edu/fyos

11. FYOS Goal 2: Other Writing Assignments Journals Minute papers eLC discussions Blogs Written work of between the faculty and student in the preparation of: a poster presentation an oral presentation a mathematical proof other projects.