Creating Study Guides
Final Draft Guidelines
Norco College English 1B Spring 2022 Syllabus
OFAR Action Plan
Peer Workshop Assignment Guidelines
Practicing Analysis
Proposal Assignment Guidelines
Rough Draft Guidelines
Tutor Feedback Assignment
Wikipedia Assignment Guidelines
English 1B--Critical Thinking and Writing: Open for Antiracism (OFAR)
Overview
The Open for Antiracism (OFAR) Program – co-led by CCCOER and College of the Canyons – emerged as a response to the growing awareness of structural racism in our educational systems and the realization that adoption of open educational resources (OER) and open pedagogy could be transformative at institutions seeking to improve. The program is designed to give participants a workshop experience where they can better understand anti-racist teaching and how the use of OER and open pedagogy can empower them to involve students in the co-creation of an anti-racist classroom. The capstone project involves developing an action plan for incorporating OER and open pedagogy into a course being taught in the spring semester. OFAR participants are invited to remix this template to design and share their projects and plans for moving this work forward.
Action Plan
There are many ways that OER and open pedagogy have helped promote anti-racism in my course. First, utilizing an OER textbook eliminates a cost barrier for students taking my course (and in the long-term should help me work towards more inclusive pedagogy as I remix and reuse). Second, utilizing the Wiki Edu training platform to create a Wikipedia assignment helps me increase students' intellectual confidence as I turn them into co-creators of knowledge, increase representation and diverse perspectives as they contribute to an online body of knowledge, and much more. In addition to these core uses, there are many other smaller uses that I have encountered along the way.
Course Description
English 1B: Critical Thinking & Writing
Course Description
Students will critically read diverse literary texts in order to compose inquiry-driven writing. Students will write a minimum of 7500 words of assessed writing. Classroom instruction integrates writing lab activities. Students may not receive credit for both ENG-1B and 1BH.
Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
- Analyze diverse literary texts through various social, historical, cultural, psychological, or aesthetic contexts.
- Critical Thinking: Students will be able to demonstrate higher-order thinking skills about issues, problems, and explanations for which multiple solutions are possible. Students will be able to explore problems and, where possible, solve them. Students will be able to develop, test, and evaluate rival hypotheses. Students will be able to construct sound arguments and evaluate the arguments of others.
- Develop written arguments in response to diverse literary texts.
- Communication Skills: Students will be able to communicate effectively in diverse situations. They will be able to create, express, and interpret meaning in oral, visual, and written forms. They will also be able to demonstrate quantitative literacy and the ability to use graphical, symbolic, and numerical methods to analyze, organize, and interpret data.
Anti-Racist Assignment / Module
Attached here are the following:
- Wikipedia Assignment: There's one main document, "Wikipedia Assignment Guidelines" and six supporting documents related to that main document. The purpose (and value) of these documents is to provide a framework to faculty who may be seeking to implement a Wikipedia Assignment using the Wiki Edu dashboard (which does not always integrate well on its own). The scope of this assignment was about 8 weeks for this course, but it can be adjusted to more weeks.
- Creating Study Guides: This assignment offers a framework for turning "busy work" studying into a productive exercise that can benefit both your current students as well as future students (the document specifically applies to Samanta Schweblin's Mouthful of Birds but the general parameters can be applied to anything).
- Practicing Analysis: This is a culturally relevant series of exercises meant to encourage students to think critically about literary analysis.