Engaging Ideas Book Discussion, Chs. 13 and 14 √ §

In this session, we’ll explore key end-of-semester concerns, including helping students improve their final projects before submission and cultivating improved learning (and easier grading) through effective and efficient feedback. We’ll use the revised and updated edition of Engaging Ideas: The Professor's Guide to Integrating Writing, Critical Thinking, and Active Learning in the Classroom (3rd Ed.) by John C. Bean and Dan Melzer (2021) to help you build on grading efficiencies explored in last month’s Faster, Easier, and More Effective … Grading? session, though attendance at that session is not required to join this discussion.

This revised edition offers the clear advice, practical strategies, and useful examples you appreciated in past editions along with the latest on writing transfer; metacognition, self-assessment, and peer review; translingual approaches to diversity in language practices; grading alternatives and ungrading; and social media and technology. Our discussion focuses on:

• “Coaching the Writing Process and Handling the Paper Load” (Chapter 13, pp. 278-297), and
• “Providing Effective and Efficient Feedback” (Chapter 14, pp. 298-316).

Participants may access the ebook online at any time through the AOK library in advance of the session using the following step-by-step instructions:

1. Log into myUMBC
2. Go to the AOK Library Website
3. In the AOK OneSearch box, type the book title (not the chapter title) and press Search
4. Locate the ebook, and click on the link to Online Access under the descriptive information

There will be two sessions, April 14 at 4 PM and April 20 at 12 PM (CANCELED). While you are welcome to join both sessions, only one session can count toward the ALIT or INNOVATE Certificate programs.