One
Hour by Arrangement for:
English
828
English 838 and 848
If you
are teaching English 838 and 848, your students must complete an Hour by Arrangment (HBA). As part of the course outlines of English 838 and 848 courses, the Hour by Arrangement (HBA) gives students the opportunity to enrich their learning beyond class time through a number of activities and materials available both inside and outside the English 800 Lab. The college monitors which students make use of every lab at CSM. The attendance and activities of each student is recorded on the SARS attendance system in all the campus labs, including the English 800 Lab.
All English faculty MUST ENFORCE THE REQUIREMENT FOR ATTENDANCE AT THE ENGLISH 800 LAB for every student, or we will lose funding for the lab! For this reason, in your syllabus, you must stress the importance of coming to the lab AT LEAST ONCE to have an essay conference with an instructor or use some of the resources available there to improve your students' writing skills.
You must also inform your students exactly what instructional activities they must complete to fulfill the HBA requirement. Because it is critical that faculty adhere to these state regulations in Title 5, the Dean of Language Arts will address this issue with any instructors who do not send their students to the English 800 Lab. Remember that syllabi are reviewed as part of the faculty evaluation procedure.
In order to fulfill the HBA, each of your students must have at least one essay conference with an instructor
in the English 800 Lab. This is an opportunity for students to get advice on how
to begin an essay, how to organize it, and how to go over a draft
and practice proofreading strategies with a lab instructor. Our goal with
each conference is to help students with specific writing difficulties such as thesis,
organization, development, or specific grammar patterns. Our purpose is
not to correct student papers to improve grades but to help students become
better writers as well as independent editors of their own essays.
As the classroom instructor, you can assign tutorial(s) to your students. Each tutorial includes explanation of a specific writing skill,
exercises, a writing assignment, and conferences with an English instructor
in the English 800 Lab (18-102) about this work. Click here to access
the English 800 Lab tutorials themselves. In the first weeks of class, after reviewing the
student's first writing assignment, you must fill out a green English
800 Lab Reporting Form for each student, specifying any tutorials, conferences,
and any activities that you want the student to complete. The HBA should translate into approximately sixteen hours of work for students each semester. The green
reporting forms will be in your mailbox during the first week of class.
These forms serve as a communication between students, classroom instructors
and the English 800 Lab (18-102).
Students will keep their own reporting forms throughout the semester so
that you can collect them periodically and monitor their progress. You
can add activities and due dates to the green reporting forms throughout
the semester.
Your students can use any of the resources available in the English 800
Lab and Writing Center by presenting their reporting forms. For example,
they can get free tutoring help from instructors in the English 800 Lab
(18-102) whenever they need it. If the English 800 Lab is closed, your
students can complete their work and receive help in the Writing Center
(18-104) next door. As long as they bring their reporting forms, students
can also research, compose, and print their essays in the Quiet Room (18-106)
of the Writing Center.
At the end of the semester, you must collect their green reporting forms to
determine what activities your students have done. (You will determine
how the HBA will affect your students’ course grades.)
When you are finished with them at the end of the semester, please remember
to deposit them in the designated box in the Language Arts division office. (Information on these forms may be used to help assess SLOs for
the English 800 Lab.) All data remain anonymous, and no students or instructor
names will be noted.
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English
828
If you are teaching
English 828, your students must complete an Hour by Arrangement (HBA). As part of the course outlines of English 828 course, the Hour by Arrangement (HBA) gives students the opportunity to enrich their learning beyond class time through a number of activities and materials available both inside and outside the English 800 Lab. The college monitors which students make use of every lab at CSM. The attendance and activities of each student is recorded on the SARS attendance system in all the campus labs, including the English 800 Lab.
All English faculty MUST ENFORCE THE REQUIREMENT FOR ATTENDANCE AT THE ENGLISH 800 LAB for every student, or we will lose funding for the lab! For this reason, in your syllabus, you must stress the importance of coming to the lab AT LEAST ONCE to have an essay conference with an instructor or use some of the resources available there to improve your students' writing skills. Because it is critical that faculty adhere to these state regulations in Title 5, the Dean of Language Arts will address this issue with any instructors who do not send their students to the English 800 Lab. Remember that syllabi are reviewed as part of the faculty evaluation procedure.
As the classroom
instructor, you must determine what activities your students should complete
to fulfill the HBA requirement. In the first weeks of class,
after reviewing the student's first writing assignment, you must fill
out a blue English 800 Lab Reporting Form for each student, specifying
what activities you want the students to complete. The blue reporting
forms will be in your mailbox during the first week of class. These forms
serve as a communication between students, classroom instructors and the
English 800 Lab (18-102). Students will keep their own reporting forms
throughout the semester so that you can collect them periodically and
monitor their progress. You can add activities and due dates to the blue
reporting forms throughout the semester.
You may want your students to do homework for class in the lab, under
the supervision of staff, so students can ask questions and get assistance.
You may also want to assign your students tutorials in the English 800 Lab and have the students meet with lab
instructors to go over the work. For a list of tutorials, click here. Or you can ask students to have essay
conferences with the instructors in the English 800 Lab on their writing
assignments. Whenever your students complete an assignment in the lab,
the instructor or instructional aide will sign their blue reporting forms.
You will determine how the HBA will affect your students’
grades. On your course syllabus, please include completion of the HBA as part of the final grade, so students will take the lab requirement
seriously. If they know that completion of the lab requirement is a portion
of the grade, they will complete it! To guarantee that students have the
opportunity to work on their skills in the areas recommended, ask your
students to complete several activities before midterm. The sooner students
begin receiving help in the lab, the better! That way, they can begin
practicing the skills they have learned in their own writing.Your students
can use any of the resources available in the English 800 Lab and Writing
Center by presenting their reporting forms. For example, they can get
free tutoring help from instructors in the English 800 Lab (18-102) whenever
they need it. If the English 800 Lab is closed, your students can complete
their work and receive help in the Writing Center (18-104) next door.
As long as they bring their reporting forms, students can also research,
compose and print their essays in the Quiet Room (18-106) of the Writing
Center.
At the end of the semester, you must collect their reporting forms to
determine what activities your students have done. When you are finished
with them at the end of the semester, please remember to deposit them
in the designated box in the Language Arts Division office (17-169). Information
on these forms may be used to help assess the SLOs for the English 800
Lab. All data remain anonymous, and student and instructor names will
not be noted.
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