This workshop will provide learning opportunities for participants to apply qualitative research methods as teaching strategies to use with large classes. The use of qualitative research methods such as observation, participant observation, interviewing, and focus groups will be combined with small group work as teaching strategies to increase the active participation of students in large classes. Participants will learn how to teach students to use documentation methods such as anecdotal records and verbatim note-taking as well as how to analyze their data. Judith Peyton . In addition, you will identify common student writing problems associated with different types of writing and interventions that help students overcome these problems.
Writing can enhance student learning, no matter what the discipline.
In this session, participants will explore writing as a process whereby students can reflect comprehension of course material, discover what they do and do not know, and integrate and synthesize course content. You will learn strategies for making writing an integral part of a course and for using peer writing groups. Participants are asked to bring a syllabus from one of your own courses that will be revised to incorporate writing to learn. Kathryn Heltne Swanson . Writing for learning can help students see the relationship between classroom activities and their own thinking.