The Writing Intensive Curriculum (WIC) Program is pleased to invite faculty to participate in the Spring 2022 WIC Seminar Program. The WIC Seminar Program is a series of workshops that prepares instructors to teach W-II and W-III classes and qualifies them to participate in the Course Embedded Tutor Program (CETP) (next offered in Fall 2022).* Faculty will receive $300 to attend this January workshop in addition to at least two other 1-1.5 hour workshops offered in the Spring semester during community time, which are listed below. Please direct any questions to WIC Coordinator, Tanya Rodrigue at trodrigue@salemstate.edu.

This foundational online workshop takes place on Monday, Jan. 31, from 11:30-2:30 and the description is below. I will send a Zoom link closer to the workshop date.

Writing Instruction in General Education Courses at SSU

In this workshop, Professor Rodrigue will introduce faculty to the vertical model of writing instruction in the General Education curriculum, and the ways the W-I, W-II, and W-III classes work independently and together to support SSU students in their growth as writers. Faculty will learn the four principles that inform the model: writing matters; writing is a means to learn; writing is a means to communicate; and writing is a process. Faculty will leave the workshop with strategies and activities for infusing these principles into their pedagogy and classroom.

Now, choose and RSVP (by clicking on the link) to at least two other workshops from the list below to complete the WIC Seminar Program. (These workshops will also be open to all faculty at the institution (not just WIC Seminar Program participants)).

1. Teaching Writing Conventions in Disciplinary Genres, Monday, Feb. 14, 11-12:15

2. Teaching Students How to Write for Different Purposes and Audiences, Monday, March 7, 11-12:15

3. Providing Productive Feedback on Student Writing, Monday, March 21, 11-12:15

4. Orchestrating Online Peer Review, Monday, April 4, 11-12:15

5. Teaching Writing with Sound Across the Curriculum, Monday, April 18, 11-12:15

*The Course Embedded Tutor Program (CETP) pairs a faculty member and their W-II or W-III class with an experienced writing center tutor. Working closely with the faculty member, the tutor provides writing support to students in an effort to help them improve their writing and achieve course learning objectives.