Please note that the EDC Institute is committed to facilitating an inclusive learning experience. If you require accommodations or have any dietary needs that might affect your experience at the conference, please send an email to faculty.development@sheridancollege.ca
Participants will explore how non-ESL faculty can support the international and multilingual students in the post-secondary classroom. Areas of focus include: understanding the relationship between student identity (a framework for identifying and labeling students) and student success; academic language learning (CALP) in the content classroom; and the connection between language and culture.
Participants will explore strategies and best practices for assessing the efficacy of discipline-specific writing instruction in courses across the curriculum. Participants will be provided with a set of proposed “writing across the curriculum” (WAC) projects and descriptions of different assessment tools that have been used to measure WAC programs in the past. They will then use the stated goals and learning outcomes of the proposed WAC projects to identify the most appropriate tools for assessing their impact on learners.
