Fostering Faculty and Teaching Assistant Development as Writing Instructors College of Arts & Sciences - $36,000
Shari Stenberg (English), Erin Blankenship (Statistics) and Walter Stroup (Statistics).
This proposal grows from a Faculty Leadership for Writing Initiative project in which a Writing Inquiry group in Statistics proposes to developing a writing pedagogy course for teaching assistants in Statistics. TAs teach 15 sections of a first-year course, Statistics 215. They wish to incorporate more writing into the course. This collaborative project with English will prepare Statistics TAs as writing instructors and create a TA teaching mentor position. The proposal reinforces a notion of the Blue Sky report to emphasize teaching as an essential component of graduate education.
