Based on the discussions\u00a0of metacognition in the first faculty development meeting of the fall semester, our group decided to encourage students to read more metacognitively, reflecting more regularly on their experience of reading a text in order to more effectively identify and navigate difficult passages.<\/p>\n
Cam’s Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n In my class, I assigned\u00a0the essay “Pond Scum:\u00a0Henry David Thoreau\u2019s moral myopia” by Katheryn Schulz, in which she critiques Thoreau’s position as a foundational contributor to American letters. After reading, students took the attached “Read Consciously” quiz, which asks them to reflect on passages they found difficult, how they addressed them, what they enjoyed, where they did the reading etc.\u00a0 (See quiz below.)<\/p>\n This quiz not only provided me with a window into the students experience with this particular text, but it also demonstrated the types of issues students more generally encountered when reading assigned\u00a0texts. It also provided a great spring board into discussing the reading process and how to approach it. This was a feature of class we returned to with the subsequent reading assignments and it positioned students to be more thoughtful\u00a0about their approach to reading throughout the semester.<\/p>\n Christine’s Experience<\/strong><\/p>\n I was a little disappointed with the answers I got from the quiz, because they were all very similar.\u00a0 That is, even the students who I had already seen had difficulty with reading gave answers very close to the students that excelled at reading.\u00a0 Most of the students had similar experiences with the text (they found it confusing, and then read it until they understood.)Therefore, I was unsure how to use the information in a useful way.\u00a0 I believe that I would get a wider variety of answers with my 1201-linked class, as I have given comparable quizzes in those sorts of classes and have gotten a variety of useful responses.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, I was able to pinpoint where some students stopped reading the text and gave up.\u00a0 This was, later, a useful issue to discuss in that class.<\/p>\n The quiz was answered by about 16 students and reads as follows:<\/p>\n Metacognitive Quiz\u00a0\u00a0 English 1202\u00a0 October 2, 2017\u00a0\u00a0 Name ________________________<\/p>\n \u201cThe Specialist\u2019s Hat\u201d by Kelly Link (http:\/\/kellylink.net\/specialists-hat<\/a>)<\/p>\n Answer in complete sentences.\u00a0 Write 3-4 sentences per question.\u00a0 Try to be as specific as possible.<\/p>\n Based on the discussions\u00a0of metacognition in the first faculty development meeting of the fall semester, our group decided to encourage students to read more metacognitively, reflecting more regularly on their experience of reading a text in order to more effectively identify and navigate difficult passages. Cam’s Experience In my class, I assigned\u00a0the essay “Pond Scum:\u00a0Henry … Continue reading “Reading Consciously (Cam Terwiliger and Christine Hamm)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":637,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1510","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/637"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1512,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1510\/revisions\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n