WAC COMMUNICATION-B (COMM-B) TRAINING
To help teaching assistants and faculty plan and teach Communication-B courses, the WAC program offers a sequence of three training workshops early each semester. TAs teaching a Comm-B course for the first time are required to attend, and faculty may join.This cross-curricular training is designed to complement course-specific training departments may provide for instructors.
During this training, we focus on issues common to instructors in all Comm-B courses, such as:
- Understanding Comm-B goals and requirements
- Antiracist approaches to teaching writing
- Developing strategies for teaching written communication, oral communication, and information literacy
- Clarifying expectations for formal writing and speaking assignments and developing appropriate evaluation criteria
- Responding effectively and efficiently to students’ writing and speaking
- Using informal (brief, ungraded) writing and speaking assignments
- Facilitating one-to-one conferences about student writing
*If you have questions, please contact Emily Hall (ebhall@wisc.edu)
New Comm-B instructors
at a WAC training Workshop
Before & AFter The Training:
Explore writing assignments and pedagogical insights from UW-Madison faculty, staff, and TAs in the WAC Sourcebook, Locally Sourced.
