Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning for Student Success

This workshop will challenge participants to bravely investigate their own classroom assessment practices, particularly their orientations toward student writing as embodied in their feedback to that writing. The workshop will consider habits of White language that inform assessment practices in our own classrooms as well as several “fast thinking" mind heuristics. We'll pause to reflect upon sample feedback on a student paper that participants bring from a past course of theirs. Faculty participants should bring to the workshop one sample paper with their feedback or assessments to the student on it or attached. This should demonstrate the typical kind of feedback the teacher provides. This workshop asks participants to be brave in the ways that Arao and Clemens describe "brave spaces" for doing race work, especially antiracist work, and to be compassionate to themselves and their colleagues. Participants will get a handout of resources. Flyer (pdf)

For more information, contact Belinda Walzer at walzerbl@appstate.edu.